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This is a stock market blog about portfolio management,foreign stocks, exchange traded funds and the occasional musing about my wildland firefighting experiences. The point here is to share process.
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Posted 2 hours ago
Yesterday I participated in the retirement panel with Seeking Alpha. This was the second panel like this (the other was a different topic back in November) I've done with them. The positive, at least
Posted 21 hours ago
Retirement Investing: Producing Income in a Near Zero-Rate Environment
Posted 1 day ago
Once or twice before I've mentioned my enjoyment of the very profane and violent HBO series Deadwood. If you are also a fan of the show chances are one of the things you like, you know besides the pro
Tags: markets real estate
Posted 1 day ago
Retirement Investing: What To Do in a Near Zero-Rate Environment?As an FYI I will be participating in the above linked panel at Seeking Alpha tomorrow at 2pm EDT. The other panelists are David Merkel
Posted 2 days ago
The crew at Bespoke Investment Group posted a chart noting the divergent paths taken by the S&P 500 and the Shanghai Composite. The extent of the divergence has ebbed and flowed before and YTD they se
Posted 3 days ago
John Spence had an article run on Marketwatch over the weekend weighing the pluses and minuses of municipal bonds and municipal bond ETFs. A few days ago Matt Hougan wrote a favorable piece on the Pow
Posted 4 days ago
As a followup to yesterday's post about the Super Cycle Oscillator pointing to several more years of bad real returns in the equity market Barron's published a short article drawing the same conclusio
Posted 5 days ago
Earlier in the week Barry Ritholtz posted this chart from Bronson Capital Markets Research. It shows 139 years of nominal returns for equities (probably somewhat familiar to you) along with 139 years
Posted 6 days ago
Earlier this week I made an across the board swap that is worth talking about. I sold China Mobile (CHL) and then replaced it with Partners Communication (PTNR).From the top down this does not change
Posted 1 week ago
On Sunday we had a little over a foot of snow fall here. After a day off on Monday we had a little less than a foot of new snow on Tuesday. The area behind where we park one of cars (at the top of our
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