…haven’t seen since the late 1990s. Furthermore, the unemployment rate now stands at 6.1 percent, down from 6.3 percent and the lowest rate since the beginning of the recession. One…
I had intended for the subject line to be Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble, but I don’t know Shakespeare very well: it’s ‘double, double, toil and trouble, fire burn and…
…and news that goes with it. As a result, I had no idea that while I was enjoying the world-famous Min-aqua-bat trick water ski team (photos here), the St. Louis…
…investors, all we really need to know is ‘soon,’ or ‘next-year,’ or something like that. It doesn’t matter exactly whether it’s March or August – in the scheme of things,…
…thumb that I had heard, which has three parts. If your net worth is less than $500,000, don’t bother because you’ll go broke quickly and will qualify for Medicare. If…
…the stock. You bought something for $5,000 that you sold for $10,000 – just not in the usual order. But still, you’ve got $4,999 in your account when you had…
…that really doesn’t mean that much. The first chart shows how quickly outperformance (and underperformance) can come and go and, just like I wrote about bonds a few weeks ago,…
…full period from 1926 to 2015. The 1920s, in green, look great with high returns, low volatility and a nice ‘hook’ that shows the diversification benefit. The 1930s, in yellow,…
…different story.) When you leave the workplace, those relationships tend to fade, some of them quite rapidly. For example, last year we had an employee, Deb Southworth, retire. Deb is…
…the world and their mail service still reaches millions of consumers. I don’t know what it’s worth, but it’s a smart bet that it’s something more than negative -$15.4 billion….
