'Sell in May' and other investing adages debunked (USA Today) A Rude Jobs Interruption (WSJ) Why Aren’t Low Rates Working? Blame Dividends (WSJ) Federal Reserve Plan for Raising Rates Sidetracked by Weak Jobs Data (WSJ) Stocks remain higher as Yellen gives policy speech (USA Today) … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2016
Introducing the Risk Analysis & Grouping Estimator or RAGE Gauge
Wouldn’t it be incredibly helpful to you and your family if you could swipe your iPhone and instantly gauge the pulse of the nation? Risks to the economy? And do it on multiple levels? At your fingertips would be an intelligent way to take the temperature, if you will, of the country. I wanted such a tool and I thought you would too. And I wanted it to be about stuff I’m interested in and not some irrelevant government statistic. Allow me to introduce to you the Risk Analysis & Grouping Estimator or RAGE Gauge. Stay tuned over the coming weeks to learn how it’s constructed. … [Read more...]
Why You Should Go Global with Stock Investing
Click to view the video at Vanguard.com A great video from Vanguard on why you should go global in your stock portfolio. … [Read more...]
Worthy Reads: Negative-yield debt breaks $10tn
Growth Potential Dimmed Before Great Recession (WSJ) Bill Gross: Want to repeat investing’s golden age? Move to Mars (MarketWatch) China Toxic Debt Solution Has One Big Problem (Bloomberg) OPEC Members Leave Their Troubles at Home (Stratfor) Negative-yield debt breaks $10tn level for first time (FT) … [Read more...]
Gold Pops on Fed Hike Skepticism
Intra-day prices for gold have popped on the weak jobs report as the market prices out Fed rate hike this summer. … [Read more...]
This Guy “Earned” $3.9 Billion in 2011 and Asks Connecticut Taxpayers for Money?
The incompetent Gov. Dannel Malloy of Connecticut is providing taxpayer money, to the tune of $22 million, to keep Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater hedge fund headquartered in the state. This is the same Ray Dalio who was paid $3.9 billion in 2011 alone. Are you kidding me? This is what happens when the 2 and 20 gang teams up with politicians. This is not just a Democrat problem. It was started by a Republican as the WSJ points out: “Mr. Malloy’s Republican predecessor Jodi Rell raised the top marginal tax rate to 6.5% from 5% on individuals earning more than $500,000, and Mr. Malloy raised it again … [Read more...]
RIP Roger Enrico
From the WSJ: Born in the small town of Chisholm to Italian immigrants, Mr. Enrico won a scholarship to Babson College in Massachusetts, studying business administration, before enlisting in the Navy. He served in Vietnam, whereas a lowly ensign he said he convinced an admiral to build a fuel pipeline instead of flying in supplies, only for the pipeline to be repeatedly blown up. After a stint as assistant brand manager for Wheaties at General Mills Inc., Mr. Enrico joined chips-and-soda giant PepsiCo in 1971, initially helping market Funyans, an onion-flavored snack. He quickly was … [Read more...]
Who Says There’s no Inflation?
Over the weekend my kid’s asked for some money for ice cream. I gave them $20 and didn’t get much change. Who says there’s no inflation? … [Read more...]
Worthy Reads: Wary Saudis Brace For a New Way of Life
Wary Saudis Brace For a New Way of Life (WSJ) Brazil moves to shrink the state (FT) U.S. Steel Tariffs Create a Double-Edged Sword (WSJ) Chart shows China’s debt bubble bigger than subprime bubble (MarketWatch) Wall Street Turns to ETFs to Sidestep Illiquidity in Bond Market (Bloomberg) … [Read more...]
Warning! Pension Funds Continue to Swing for the Fences
You really can’t make this stuff up. Pension funds refuse to read the writing on the wall: We are living in a reduced return world. It’s as simple as that. Yet instead of taking their lumps, and I’m not even talking about funding what they should have paid years ago into the plan, they are reaching for returns. If you’ve learned anything from my posts to you about investing, it’s that you cannot “hope” for the market to do something for you. You do not want to “reach” for returns. And yet that’s what pensions are doing. It’s not teachers, firemen, and policemen doing this. They leave it to … [Read more...]
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