Monthly Archives: September, 2011
How to Profit when Stocks Plummet
Over the last two months, stock-market fluctuations have been extreme. In August, 400-point swings became a common daily occurrence for the Dow Jones Industrial...
What We’re Reading 9-23-11
Global Stocks Drop 20% Into Bear Market, Lynn Thomasson and Michael Patterson, Bloomberg
The Spend Now, Tax Later Jobs Bill, Alan Reynolds, The Wall Street...
Down 58% in 2008
Legg Mason Value Trust fund outperformed the stock market every year from 1991 to 2005. The word “legendary” would often precede the name of...
Twisted Monetary Policy
At the Fed’s policy meeting yesterday, Mr. Bernanke announced that what America desperately needs is a rearranging of the deck chairs. Facing opposition from,...
Chanos on China
Mr. Chanos provides a sobering reminder of the dangers lurking in the world’s second largest economy.
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