Monthly Archives: October, 2020

How Low Rates Can Be a Killer

Investors have a short-term memory—they forget what losing money feels like. Do you remember how everyone was reaching for yield leading up to the...

Digital Currencies Would Stifle Economic Freedom

There is a movement afoot in central banking circles to shift from paper currency to digital currency. Sounds convenient and probably like a good idea...

Now Is the Right Time to Make Dividends Your Ally

For over five decades, the underpinning of everything I have written has been a foundation of dividends. It has served me well, and if...

Why Vanguard is too Big: Part VII: What Do You Have to Lose? A LOT

You wouldn’t believe the conversation I had yesterday with a prospective client. It’s as if he’s done everything we’ve recommended over the years and...

Boston Fed’s Rosengren Says U.S. Struggles to Rein in Risk-Taking

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's President, Eric Rosengren, has criticized the Fed's low interest rate policy. Rosengren believes the policy has created an...

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The Power of a Compound Interest Table

The principles written about here are as true today...

Dr. Bernanke’s Scorched Earth Monetary Policy Claims another Victim

It seems the Fed’s perpetual zero percent interest rate...

High Stakes at Panama Canal as Bidding Process Draws Scrutiny

Panama has taken control of key container terminals from...

Peculiar Divergences

What worries me most about the stock market…

A Simple Recipe for Beating the Market 3 to 1

Over more than eight decades of stock market history,...

Covert Global Currency Wars

“The lessons for the present are clear. Today most...

The Monday Melee: Euro Hits New 2014 Lows

  What we're reading: Mark Cuban talks before he thinks. On...

What Americans Can Learn from the Baltics’ Flat Tax Success

The Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell offers Americans an outstanding...

Here’s What You Need to Know about Dividends

In November 1999 tech stocks with no dividends seemed...

Is This the Last Dance for Glamour Stocks?

Great piece by Jason Zwieg in this weekend’s WSJ....