A Better Way Than “Buy and Hold”
In the late 1950s, John Bogle changed the investing world.Bogle became the chief advocate for index investing, a strategy based around the idea that investors should stop trying to pick individual...
View ArticleIs it a fiscal cliff or merely a bump in the road?
by Linda BealeIs it a fiscal cliff or merely a bump in the road? Sixty percent of American voters in exit polls indicated that they supported higher taxes for the wealthy, see here. Even some arch...
View ArticleSolar Energy Powers the Military and Veterans
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View ArticleGreat Graphic: Fiscal Cliff
This Great Graphic is from the Washington Post and Pew Research. It finds that by a margin of 51%-38%, Americans believe that President Obama and the Republican-led House of Representatives will not...
View ArticleCurrencies of the Future
Many people complain about government control of currency, but only a few do something about it. I’m not talking about movements to “audit the Fed” and such. I’m talking about real innovation that...
View ArticleA city of 7 million you’ve probably never heard of…
November 13, 2012, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia.[Editor’s note: Sovereign Man Chief Investment Strategist Tim Staermose is filling in for Simon today.]Surabaya in East Java is a glamorous old city...
View ArticleOne Nation, Divisible
We are a country not just divided, but fragmented along axes of race, age, religion, economic status and geography. There are now 15 States where citizens have filed petitions to secede from the...
View ArticleGovernment-Guaranteed Contagion
We begin today with an abject lesson in the “law of unintended consequences” — the bane of bureaucrats and world improvers the world over.“We’re finding it in our systems, and so are other companies,”...
View ArticleTop 30 Fastest and Slowest Growing Economies
Here are the fastest and slowest growing economies in the world ranked by 2012 GDP growth. The growth estimates and 2013 forecasts are from the October IMF World Economic Outlook database.Note, the...
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With His Latest Note, Goldman's Jan Hatzius Demonstrates Why He's One Of The...
Back in 2008 I started discussing the idea of the household debt crisis. In early 2009 I read Richard Koo’s fantastic “Holygrail of macroeconomics” and ripped off the term “balance sheet recession” –...
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The History Of Debt And Taxation In The US
With the Bush tax cuts set to expire at the end of December, let's take a moment to reflect on the history of U.S. federal debt and personal taxation, the latter of which began in 1913.The first chart...
View ArticleThe World’s Ugliest Chart
JC Penney trading like it’s doomed to become JC Penniless after its dismal earnings report. The stock is about $4 off its crash lows and fast approaching its 25-year low. Can’t see a catalyst...
View ArticleHow A Mining Magnate Bounced Back After The Bolivian Government Nationalized...
Prophecy Platinum Corp. (NKL), has scored a major talent coup by attracting a trio of credible and experienced mining executives to advance its flagship Wellgreen platinum, nickel and copper project in...
View ArticleLemmings in Wonderland
“If I had a world of my own,” declared Alice, Lewis Carroll’s red pill-popping protagonist while wandering around her author’s Wonderland, “everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is,...
View ArticleAmazon Features The Hedge Fund Mirage
Amazon asked me to write a piece for their blog promoting certain books, so I was happy to oblige. You can find it here.Read more posts on In Pursuit of Value »Please follow Money Game on Twitter and...
View ArticleCliff Diving – Day 2
No panic today, though stocks continue to sell down. Maybe some are just panicking before others.Geithner out on the tape, reported by CNBC, saying tax rates have to be raised on the upper income....
View ArticleDaily ETF Roundup: Stocks Sink, Greece Cuts A Deal
Major equity indexes tallied another session in red territory as pessimism continues to reign supreme on Wall Street. Despite a strong rally at the opening bell, stocks ultimately failed to hold onto...
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Robots Are Behind The Last Three Jobless Recoveries
The past three economic recoveries have been “jobless” ones. Job growth has lagged far behind GDP growth. In “Jobless recoveries and the disappearance of routine occupations,” economists Henry Siu and...
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These Are The Obama Tax Hikes That Will Really Hurt
While President Obama and Speaker Boehner have been talking about what to do about tax rates on labor income, little has been said about the rise in dividend and capital gains tax rates — and how they...
View ArticleThe Market for Squirrel Catchers
People often say of a weak candidate, “He couldn’t get elected dogcatcher.” But actually, this isn’t a sensible criticism at all.If someone were actually running for dogcatcher, I would want to know...
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