Before the devastating tsunamis of 2004 rolled over the coastlands around the Indian Ocean, local animals seemed to sense the coming disaster. Eyewitnesses reported that elephants moved to higher ground, … Read More
Legendary infomercial pitchman Ron Popeil wasn’t just the inventor of the Chop-O-Matic, the Pocket Fisherman, and Mr. Microphone. He was also the creator of one of the greatest slogans in … Read More
Celebrating Groundbreaking Research with Giants of Finance In this article from Dimensional This year marks the anniversaries of research that laid the foundation for a new way to invest. Merton’s … Read More
The normal retirement planning models say that when we retire, we will spend the same amount of money out of our retirement portfolios each year on living expenses, travel, eating … Read More
Fears of an imminent recession are getting kind of old at this writing; any investors who retreated some or all of their portfolios to the sidelines in anticipation that the … Read More
What if somebody could tell you the exact date when the next recession will begin, so you could get out of the market and wait it out. Wouldn’t that be … Read More
Individuals with advanced economic degrees and economists that are employed (sometimes at astronomical salaries) at the big brokerage firms have inside data that tells them where the economy is going. … Read More
Back in 1997, investors could choose from more than 8,000 publicly-traded companies listed on the various exchanges. Today, that number is just over 4,000. What’s going on? A variety of … Read More
If companies are hiring, then presumably they are growing and making money. If they’re laying off workers, then that might suggest that their sales and revenues are declining. Oddly, the … Read More
Pretty much every economic theory rests on the idea that prices are set by the balance between supply and demand. If there are more buyers than sellers, or more demand … Read More
