Earlier this week, I received a call from a college student who had started a successful business. His school, he said, doesn’t offer any practical courses in personal finance so he asked my advice on investing. We walked through the following key questions. I would offer this same advice to [...]
When to sell
Year-to-date, stocks are down almost 20%. And bonds, surprisingly, have lost money too—down about 10%. At times like this—when the headlines are almost all negative—the standard advice is to avoid panicking, to stay focused on the long term. I agree with that, and indeed the data are clear: [...]
Investment sayings
A few weeks back, I referenced Robert Shiller’s book Narrative Economics. The idea is that stories—to a surprising degree—often drive markets. The investment world is also driven by a good number of sayings and aphorisms. Many of these are entertaining, and some are even useful. But they can also be [...]
Five tips to build a sensible portfolio
Last week, I talked about bitcoin and argued that it wasn’t a great investment. The reality, though, is that only a minority of investors hold cryptocurrency. That’s a good thing, in my opinion. But still, there are many other ways to go off track in building a portfolio. In fact, if I ever wrote [...]
Crypto lessons
Since the beginning of the year, the stock market has dropped nearly 25%. That’s significant, but it doesn’t compare to the losses experienced by cryptocurrency investors. Dogecoin is down more than 90%, and smaller currencies like terra have lost essentially all their value. Even bitcoin and [...]
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