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Equities in the Last 30 Years: A Retrospective
Looking at a chart http://bit.ly/qSHuve covering the performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the last century is a lot like looking at a chart of profitable business earnings at a cartoon enterprise meeting–it’s almost a caricature of itself, a steady upward slope punctuated by regular but far-between drops, always ending higher than it…
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Should you Buy Gold as an Investment?
We have all seen the advertisements and headlines that keep telling us that investors need to flee to safety and buy gold. They will tell us that the stock market is going to crash worse than last time, and that investors need a hedge to inflation with gold. They will say it with charisma and…
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Is the Stock Market Rigged?
Investors everywhere are panicking and fearful after a very interesting topic on 60 minutes this past Sunday. The headlines read, “The Stock Market is Rigged, and you are the victim”. So I am going to break down exactly why they are saying that the stock market is rigged, and whether you should panic or not.…
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Candy Crush Saga is Going Public: Should You Invest?
As Candy Crush Saga makes its way to Wall Street there are a few things we can learn from this IPO (Initial Public Offering). First of all, should you invest in an IPO company? The answer is no. Matson Money chooses to stay away from stocks when they first go through their IPO due to…
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When Stockpickers Realize Their Flaw
Stock Picking is and has been a very popular topic for years. We look at examples like Warren Buffet and see how much success he had “stock picking”. Well I learned today that Warren Buffet doesn’t believe that stock picking works. Here are pieces of a great article called, “Why the World’s Greatest Stock Picker…
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Bad Markets in January?
The market return in January was down, especially when comparing it to the wonderful returns we all received in 2013. You might be thinking, is this the beginning of a bear market. Should you panic. The answer is no to panicking. The market will do its thing in the short term but if you are…
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What’s Even Better than Index Funds?
Dan Solin helps us to understand first of all why index funds are better than actively traded funds. Then he goes on to explain why there is an even better way to invest than index funds. We call it institutional funds, he calls it passive asset class investing. Here is part of the article he…
