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Yesterday was certainly a stressful day for US investors.  Watch as Chad talks with Steve Daniels of ABC 11 Eyewitness News about the best way to react to the recent stock market moves.

The total United States government spending for fiscal year 2011 is budgeted at $3.82 trillion. Of that amount we are borrowing $1.65 trillion in order to be able to pay all of our obligations.  If the debt ceiling is not raised by August 2nd, effectively shutting down the government, we would have to the fill [...]

The tragedy in Japan continues to be the top news story and warrants international support.  While the human aspect of this crisis continues to be devastating, we can’t discount the economic impact as well.  Well respected international fund family, First Eagle Funds, was heavily allocated to Japanese investments before the tsunami hit.  To find out [...]

An easily forgotten truth of investing is when prices are high, skies are sunny and when prices are low it’s stormy.  In other words, successful long term investing involves turning cautious when things look good and aggressive when things look bad.  Sunny = Sell High, Stormy = Buy Low.
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“I can calculate the movement of heavenly bodies but not the madness of men.” – Sir Isaac Newton
In Jeremy Grantham’s latest quarterly letter, he profiled a story about Sir Isaac Newton in which one of the most highly regarded intellects in human history was lucky enough to enter the South Sea stock bubble rather early.  [...]

We are not even six months removed from a period when many economists were predicting we’d see a double-dip recession.  Bob Veres, author of Inside Information, wrote a piece back in September that discussed some important counter-points to the bearish prognostications that perpetuate the the wall of worry a bull market typically climbs.
If you’re feeling [...]

When it comes to investing, emotions are probably the single biggest obstacle to success for most investors.  Since strong emotions often accompany politics, we feel it’s important to try and minimize politics when gathering our investment research and implementing investment strategies.
Given that there are plenty of examples of the economy and markets doing well and [...]

In today’s economic environment, safety is at a premium but bank account rates remain at historical lows.  This has persuaded many investors to look for higher yields with their safe money.  In some of these situations, they are finding products that are advertising a 7-9% return.
We found a real-world example described in this Bloomberg article [...]

Have you ever felt anxious about your investment portfolio?  Who hasn’t?  A recent presentation at one of our professional conferences pointed out that five out of every six years will produce a stock market return sequence that either triggers anxiety or smacks your portfolio so hard that you wonder why you ever trusted the markets [...]

Chances are, you know somebody who has made a vow to go to the gym twice or three times a week, and even bought a gym membership, and never gets around to going.  You probably also know people who don’t put money in their company’s 401(k) plan, even though the company matches some or all [...]