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For those of you that are new to investing or haven’t experienced financial meltdowns like the one we’re seeing currently, I thought I’d write up a post on a somewhat similar situation which arose about twenty years ago. Contrary to what it may have seemed like the last 10 years, our capital markets are happy […]
It seems a lot of “market curiosities,” or stock market urban legends, tend to revolve around beginning of the year happenings. I guess that’s because we’re all looking for an edge or some kind of crystal ball to reveal to us what will happen to our money as the new year unfolds. Here’s one that’s […]
Super Tuesday is coming up in a week and this year’s presidential elections are heating up. With all sorts of worries about the markets and the greater economy, can history enlighten us on what to expect? Maybe it can even tell us who to vote for!
Keynesian economics was first postulated in 1936 and became widely […]
Are the markets cyclical? Is society always doomed to repeat itself? It would seem that simple human nature and our fascination with using regressive analysis to predict future performance would almost mandate such behavior in the markets. We’ve all heard the old saying, “Sell in May and Go Away.” A few months ago, I posted […]
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