Succinct Summations for the week ending January 18th, 2019 Positives: 1. Markets eked out a gain on hopes for a Trade War breakthrough. 2. Housing market index rose 2 points m/o/m from 56 to 58....
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Succinct Summations for the week ending January 18th, 2019 Positives: 1. Markets eked out a gain on hopes for a Trade War breakthrough. 2. Housing market index rose 2 points m/o/m from 56 to 58....
Data Picks Investments, Stories Sell Them How investment products are created and sold now is the reverse of two decades ago. Bloomberg, January 11, 2019. Once upon a time, portfolios were...
My end of week morning train reads: • Investing Prophet Jeremy Grantham Takes Aim at Climate Change: The veteran money manager will devote $1 billion to helping the world escape catastrophe....
Its going to snow & ice this weekend. While the Orange Beastie is more than up to the task, I have always coveted these unavailable-in-the-USA Defender 90s. Its probably the lure of the...
"After Ireland, the Dutch economy is most entwined with that of the UK," she said,...
Praise for John Bogle Compounds, Just Like His Returns He showed that average returns were fine, keeping costs low was crucial, and putting investors first was paramount. Bloomberg, January 17,...
Why do I suspect that this price is fairly irrelevant when premium Cable channels are $10 and $15 dollars per month and offer a fraction of both the quality and quantity of Netflix? I am willing...
My morning train reads: • John Bogle, who founded Vanguard and revolutionized retirement savings, dies at 89 (Inquirer) see also ‘Patron Saint’ of the Investing Business: Remembering Jack Bogle...
Jack Bogle passed away today at 89. He was a legend — and I mean that in the truest sense of the word. Tomorrow, I will post a more coherent set of thoughts, but tonight, I have read enough...
Blair Duquesnay, an advisor for Ritholtz Wealth Management — she is a CFA/CFP who sits on our investment committee, appeared today on CNBC to discuss her New York Times op-ed “Consider Firing Your...
Three Necessary Steps to End Brexit Madness Start by acknowledging that leaving the European Union was never going to be cheap, easy or painless. Bloomberg, January 16, 2019 The first...
The rich are just like the rest of us. Only with a lot more money. Oh, maybe that’s not true. Maybe they believe they’re entitled to what they want, that the rules of both law and morality don’t...
My midweek morning train reads: • Bigger Gold Companies Still Aren’t Glitterati Heftier companies aren’t likely to solve the industry’s fundamental problems (Wall Street Journal) • If Earnings...