Looking at Inflation, Backwards and Forwards
…and bonds on the theory that a recession is coming, keep in mind that I wrote that markets are pricing it in. If a recession comes, that alone may not…
…and bonds on the theory that a recession is coming, keep in mind that I wrote that markets are pricing it in. If a recession comes, that alone may not…
…the 2008 financial crisis, this index got to -7.5, so unlike the VIX, financial conditions didn’t get as bad this time, which makes sense since the 2008 crisis was born…
Markets were caught off guard last week by several inflation data points last week, and the biggest surprise came from the core inflation rate which was expected to come in…
…A and point B. To illustrate the point, I decided to look at one of the hottest stocks of 2017: Nvidia, a technology company that designs graphic chips that are…
…combined net worth was in General Electric (GE) stock. It was the largest position for both of us, actually. I received the stock when my grandfather died, which was right…
…fund and then request grants to your favorite charities from the fund. Compared to direct giving, donor-advised funds are convenient because you can just make one or two contributions (of…
…history, showed that as long as two assets aren’t perfectly correlated, two assets could have a lower volatility combined than either one alone. In fact, a combination of these two…
…admire him and his firm, and I thought the slide was cool. His chart compares the difference in valuation between value (cheap) stocks and growth (expensive) stocks. If you look…
…crisis does come in 2008 and he earns 0.2 percent while the S&P 500 loses -37.0 percent. At that point, I assume that he thought that things were only going…
…for $16 million, a subsequent loss of -79 percent, which took the top-to-bottom loss of more than -99 percent, (Remember my old joke: how do you lose -90 percent? Lose…