Archive for July, 2010
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2010Considering the brutal market we have been through the last decade, which of the following two paths would you choose if you could go back to January 1990 and start over? A) $5,000 lump sum in Vanguard’s 500 Index Fund and $5,000 lump sum in Vanguard’s Total Bond Index Fund or B) $10,000 lump sum [...]
A Hypothetical Conversation Between a Stock Picker and an Indexer
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010I saw this hypothetical conversation between a stock picker and an indexer by Larry Swedroe in the book I mentioned last night: Mutual Funds: Portfolio Structures, Analysis, Management, and Stewardship (Robert W. Kolb Series)*. Read the conversation and tell me what you think. My thoughts are at the end. Steve: I just bought a 1,000 [...]
A Great Economics Resource for Teachers (or Proactive Parents)
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010The authors of Common Sense Economics*—one of my favorite books on economics—have created a great website for parents, students, teachers and professors. You can check it out at CommonSenseEconomics.com. There you will find PowerPoint presentations for various economic discussions, reading guides for students, review questions, and suggested reading. As a parent, I’m going to utilize [...]
Ten For Tuesday, July 12, 2010
Tuesday, July 13th, 20101. Cool! People are paying down their credit cards. Or are they? 2. Try to Outfox the Box. 3. An analysis of 30 Ways to Fix Social Security. …increasing the payroll tax by 2 percentage points over the next two decades, cutting benefits for all new recipients by 15 percent, and making all earnings subject [...]
Federal Debt as a Percent of GDP
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010I saw this chart on Professor John Haslem’s website and thought I’d share it (click on the graphic to go to Professor Haslem’s site): I first learned about Professor Haslem from Larry Swedroe who sent me an email about a book titled, Mutual Funds: Portfolio Structures, Analysis, Management, and Stewardship (Robert W. Kolb Series)*, that [...]
Correlation In the Market is Making Life Difficult for Stock Pickers
Monday, July 12th, 2010An article in today’s WSJ talks about how the correlation (the tendency for stocks to move in the same direction) in the stock market is at high not seen since 1987. From the article: Earlier this year, when stocks were on the mend and investors were less anxious, the correlation between the S&P 500 and [...]
Larry Winget on Money
Monday, July 12th, 2010You all know this stuff but in case you don’t:
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