Retirement Investing
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April 2013
April 26, 2013 04:30 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review Is the government going to confiscate your retirement account or other financial accounts? Recent news stories brought that fear front and center for many Americans. First, there was the news that Cyprus enacted a “bail-in”. Bank account holders effectively had a percentage of their […]
Are Stocks Cheap?
One of the perpetual great debates among investors is the relative value of stocks. Are they cheap or are they expensive? This would be an easy question is everyone agreed on the correct metric. But they don’t. Some, such as Professor Robert Shiller and fund manager John Hussman, prefer 10-year average smoothed earnings. Others use […]
Can Gold Rise Higher?
Gold’s been a puzzle to many observers lately. It’s been in a trading range despite global central banks heavily engaging in money printing. Easy money should lead to higher gold prices. Instead, most recently gold has stayed near the bottom of the trading range. Is the gold bull market over? Most likely, I think it […]
Manipulating the Gold Market
I’ve long advised investors that gold is a thinly–traded market and is prone to sharp moves by a relatively small amount of money. But I haven’t considered how easy it might be for the market to manipulated on a regular basis. And gold isn’t the only asset that can be manipulated by governments, banks, or […]
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Stocks at Bargain Levels
Bloomberg.com caught a lot of attention yesterday with a somewhat misleading headline, “Record U.S. Stocks at Lowest Valuation since 1980.” You might ask, how can that be when most analysts say the stock indexes are somewhere near fairly valued. Reading the article further reveals that the real point is that the price-earnings ratios are the […]
March 2013
March 29, 2013 12:00 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review You still can attend my upcoming presentations in May. The first is one of our regular free online investment presentations. This one is May 1 at 3:30 p.m. eastern time. I’ll discuss “Adjusting Your Investments for 2013’s Second Half.” You can register at this […]
Searching for the Next Stock Market Bubble
After being burned by tech stocks in the late 1990s and real estate and stocks again in the first decade of the 2000s, investors are trying to be alert for bubbles. This post argues that the way to spot a bubble is to follow the quantitative analysts and investors. He thinks he’s found the next […]
A Few Words Against Investing in Gold
Gold investors generally give several reasons why they like the yellow metal. A new research report by a couple of serious researchers casts doubt on those reasons. Claude Erb, formerly of TCW, and Campbell Harvey, professor at Duke, took the five reasons people generally give for owning gold and tested gold’s historic performance against them. […]
