Kevin Bacon and Sidelined Cash – 2Q2022

As 80s heartthrob, loose-footed, and distant-relative-to-all Kevin Bacon asked in the classic 1978 comedy Animal House (based on Harold Ramis’ experience at my alma mater WashU), “Thank you, sir, may I have another?”  After a difficult 1st quarter, the US markets delivered another blow to investor portfolios, ending the first half of the year down…

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Predictions, Money and Mattresses

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I don’t usually make short-term market guesses – my crystal ball has been in the shop for almost 20 years; at this point I can’t remember if it was cracked or just fogged. I believe in the power of long-term markets, good diversification and poor performance as a result of short-term market prognosticating. 

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2020…A Decade to Remember

Living through 2020 felt like living through an entire decade. I’ll leave it to you to decide which decade you’d like to relive, but I’m going for the 1960s – though maybe skimming a few years from the late 60s and adding them to the late 50s.

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When Batting .700 Isn’t Good Enough…

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You’re smarter than the average investor, right?  You’ve done the research and despite hearing how difficult it is to predict the market’s direction over a specified period of time, you’re confident you know better than the CFAs, Ph.Ds and Quant’s building the algorithms on Wall Street.  You even understand that, by definition, if the stock market…

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