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Your Portfolio Could Use This Investment as a Powerful Insurance Policy

July 23, 2020 By Dick Young

There are very few real counterbalancers available in an asset bubble like the one being blown today by the Fed and other central banks. One investment I have found to be reasonably reliable as a counterweight insurance policy is precious metals, specifically gold and silver. Is there downside risk in buying metals? Of course. Here’s how I previously explained that risk: Relative to gold, silver is cheap. The higher the gold/silver ratio, the cheaper silver is. The historical gold/silver ratio has been 15:1. Today, it is 53:1. Central banks do not own silver, which they could dump on … [Read more...]

My Biggest Investing Quarter Ever

July 1, 2020 By Dick Young

Due to a convergence in timing, I was able to make by far the biggest commitment to the stock market in my life during late March and into the second quarter of 2020. On 31 March 2020, I posted My Three Week-Long Investing Program. It led off, “I am ramping it up over the month of April and into May." As reported 30 June in the WSJ, U.S stocks finished their best quarter in 20 years. I also posted the exact areas I was investing in and why. No way I could have expected such quick and massive returns. Given that Joe Biden is apparently attempting to put a quick end to it all by … [Read more...]

How to Invest Today

June 22, 2020 By Dick Young

It’s time for a change in pace. Since the end of March, the Dow has exploded from about 18,500 to over 25,000 as June nears an end. During this period, I steadily added to my equities position as well as to my individual bond positions. I also added to three fund positions (nearly 50% fixed) that I have owned for decades (not index funds) as well as to smaller positions in gold and the Swiss Franc. In the coming quarter, I plan to increase my focus on fixed income. My four biggest concerns today are (1) the Fed’s balance sheet and (2) the historically low level of U.S. government … [Read more...]

You Want the Limo, Not the Public Bus

June 12, 2020 By Dick Young

Your investing future does not have to be relegated to a public transportation type of experience. You have a choice. And you can go in first class comfort or, instead, take a seat in the back of the bus. Here’s what I mean. To start, don’t spring for yesterday’s investments – stock index funds or most equities centric funds. Don’t settle for government bonds that pay virtually nothing today, or for casino-like big S&P 500 stocks that pay no dividends but often sell for criminal market cap-to-sales ratios. By now you undoubtedly realize that robo-advisors, whatever they are, offer … [Read more...]

Trump Cavalcade Drives America Back to Business

June 8, 2020 By Dick Young

Debbie and I have traveled up the East Coast countless times over the last many decades. On every trip, we take inventory of the health of America's small-town Main Streets, pedestrian activity in towns, and truck activity on the highways, among many other inference reading signals. Last Friday we were traveling again. That day, news dropped of the record-setting job gains in May. The stock market soared, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing up 829.16 points. While liberal economists like Paul Krugman wrote the report off as a conspiracy theory, the evidence of America's jobs … [Read more...]

Here’s How Tiny Sweden Beat China

June 4, 2020 By Dick Young

Tiny remote Sweden, partially sitting in the polar region, is home to only a little over 10 million souls. China, meanwhile, is a massive country, home to nearly 1.4 billion. You may not think Sweden would have the wherewithal to defeat China in any theater of competition, but in one growing industry, Sweden is prepared to dominate its Chinese rival. In the race for 5G technology leadership, Sweden’s Ericsson may be about to best China’s Huawei. Or, more accurately, Huawei’s ties to China’s Communist Party government are about to blow the technology company’s chances of a worldwide 5G … [Read more...]

Harley-Davidson in Transition, Probably a Takeover Target

June 1, 2020 By Dick Young

Debbie and I have put over 100,000 miles on our Harleys riding across the United States and Canada. My riding days are behind me, but as a devotee, I keep an eye on Harley’s business, as I have for years. If you’re one of my long-time readers, you know Harley was Young Research’s stock of the decade in the 1990s. In June 1998, I and millions of Harley-Davidson fans celebrated the company’s 95tht anniversary. I wrote then: For about $18,000, you can be astride a classic American cruiser, the Harley-Davidson Road King—if you can get one. This summer Debbie and I will ride our Harleys … [Read more...]

An Alternative Approach to Investing when Markets are Down

May 14, 2020 By Dick Young

In 2008, when investing seemed like an exercise in futility to many investors, I explained an alternative approach. This approach has worked for me now for over five decades. I learned this method from the teachings of Ben Graham, and have successfully employed it my entire career. Here’s what I wrote: Concentrate on Shares, Not Price... The stocks and funds you own pay you dividends based on the number of shares you own, not on the price of those shares. Unless you are fortunate enough to be Gandalf redux, it is likely that the price of most of the shares you own in 2008 is down hard, to … [Read more...]

The Fed Has a 100% Error Rate

April 27, 2020 By Dick Young

Much like the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the coronavirus has revealed an overvalued market to investors. The blame for this overvaluation lies with a Federal Reserve that has so distorted interest rates, the view of risk has become clouded. A few years ago, I wrote: In End the Fed, Ron Paul writes, “The essence of the Federal Reserve Act was largely unchanged from when it was first hatched years earlier. With a vote by Congress, the government would confer legal legitimacy on a cartel of the largest bankers and permit them to inflate the money supply at will, providing for … [Read more...]

How to Deal with a Crisis You Can’t Predict

April 17, 2020 By Dick Young

Do you consider yourself well-prepared? There’s no predicting some scenarios— the so-called Black Swans. Below is a troubling illustration I wrote some time ago of just how bad facing the unexpected can feel: Knock, Knock It’s 1:30 a.m.—pitch black on your suburban porch. A woman whom you do not recognize is at your front door, while an unfamiliar car idles in your driveway. Peeking out, you talk through a side window to the interloper, who explains that you had called her, and here she is. Your 1911 Handgun You, of course, had not called her, and, as a phone call goes into the police, … [Read more...]

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