With the wild moves in bitcoin, the hucksters and charlatans are out in full force. Below are two headlines I came across in just the last 24 hours. Cryptocurrency fund of hedge funds launched for retail investors How to make $700,000 with Penny Cryptocoins The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has taken note of the…
Why Young Investors Should Hope For a Crash
Earlier this week I wrote about the potential different paths the market can take on a journey to the same final destination. Below is a chart which plots three different ways that $10,000 can compound at 2% a year for twenty years. Assuming you buy and you hold, the path won’t matter to the end…
Animal Spirits: Invest Like the Worst
GMO Quarterly Letter Experts on an earlier version of the world A Dismal Outlook Stockmarket in 1997 … apropos of nothing of coursehttps://t.co/lttBD4xmHK — Plan Maestro (@PlanMaestro) December 8, 2017 The Midnight Line Herbert Hoover in the White House Thanks for listening!
What Time is It?
The best description of the late stages of a bull market comes from the great “Adam Smith’s” Supermoney: We are all at a wonderful ball where the champagne sparkles in every glass and soft laughter falls upon the summer air. We know, by the rules, that at some moment, the Black Horseman will come shattering through…
A Dismal Outlook
In GMOs most recent letter, Jeremy Grantham leads off the piece with, “At GMO these days we argue over three very different pathways to a similar dismal 20-year outlook for pension fund returns…A problem for investors following GMO’s writing is which of these three alternatives to choose” With this in mind, let’s take a look…
These Are the Goods
Articles You need to make sure your money is going to organizations that will make best use of your hard-earned money By Tadas Viskanta The more we have of it, it seems, the more money wears off. By Grant E. Donnelly and Michael Norton What’s in place now? What’s in the new plan? By Ron…
Animal Spirits: Mayday
Topics discussed on the show. Jack Bogle is worried about U.S. pensions Something I’m worried about The pension fund private equity Hail Mary Jeremy Siegel expected returns Trading costs & the new market averages Investment costs have never been cheaper The bitcoin whales Coinbase: the heart of the bitcoin frenzy Animating Mr. Market Is…
Lessons From the General
Failure is a far better teacher than success because it’s much easier to duplicate failure than it is to replicate success. If we can study somebody’s shortcomings, we can take away tangible lessons and also realize that mistakes are just a part of the process. Some can be avoided, some we must learn for ourselves. Ulysses…
These Are the Goods
Articles We have a full-blown mania on our hands and Wall Street is still at the drawing board. By Josh Brown For a time last week, Coinbase was among the 10 most downloaded iPhone apps, ahead of Uber and Twitter. By Nathaniel Popper Markets are supposed to match the needs of buyers…
Two Sides of the Same Coin
It’s impossible to escape the mania. By this point, literally everybody is talking about it. Friends, family members, customs agents, cats, and obviously, Uber drivers. If you own bitcoin or any of the other cryptos that are making those of us who don’t feel foolish, good for you. For the rest of us, we’ve got…
