On November 2, 2022, I published this post when the S&P 500 was at 3,750. Based on the latest Series I Bond rate, I thought it was a bullish economic indicator. As a result, I bought stocks. Please review my thought process and how I think as an investor since 1995. In a bear market, […]
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Although going through another bear market is a bummer, the positive is we can all generate more passive income! And given we can now generate more passive income we can also get that much closer to financial freedom. As a reminder, financial freedom means having enough passive income to cover your desired living expenses. When
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The high-yield corporate bond spread is an important stock market indicator. The larger the spread, the greater the concern high-yield corporate bond investors have about the stock market and vice versa. The high-yield corporate bond spread is the difference between the yield of the bonds issued by riskier companies and risk-free Treasury yields. The spread
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Since 2009, one of the things I have focused on is trying to help readers have a risk-appropriate asset allocation. A risk-appropriate investor invests according to their true risk tolerance. When you invest according to your true risk tolerance, you usually become a calmer, wealthier person. Over the long run, your investment asset allocation is
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With U.S. Treasury bond yields still high, the interest in buying Treasury bonds has increased. Let me show you how to buy Treasury bonds online. I’ll then share some buying strategies to help maximize returns and liquidity. Treasury bonds are risk-free investments if you hold them until maturity. You don’t have to pay state or
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With the Fed finally embarking on a multi-year rate cut cycle, concerns for another recession or even another global financial crisis is growing. Trump’s aggressive trade wars is causing chaos and uncertainty. And with the stock market taking a dive, consumers will likely pull back spending to save more for an unknown future. I would
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One of the main reasons why I wrote my WSJ bestseller, Buy This, Not That was to help readers feel less regret by making wiser choices. Regret is one of the worst feelings, especially if it is a type of regret that could have been prevented through knowledge. The easiest way to stop saying, “If
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Market timing is the strategy of making buying or selling decisions of financial assets by attempting to predict future market price movements. By timing the market, the hope is to make an eventual profitable decision. Market timing gets a bad rap partially because it’s difficult to do consistently to profit. Active fund managers consistently underperform
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You might be wondering why rich central bankers remain unrelenting in their desire to raise interest rates. After all, there are plenty of signs individual components of inflation are rolling over. Given each interest rate hike takes at least six months to have an affect on slowing the economy, the Federal Reserve could easily over
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With heightened stock market volatility, more investors are looking for ways to hedge their portfolios or find some way to outperform the broader indices. Therefore, I thought it would be a good idea to interview Ananda Aisola, the co-founder of Composer, a new investment platform, which leverages artificial intelligence. For 13 years I worked in
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