In recent weeks I’ve focused on some of the growing risks in the financial system. In the stock market, there are day trading enthusiasts and their obliging brokers. And in Washington, there is a Federal Reserve that seems to have served up a bottomless punch bowl of new money. The result is [...]
A common question
If you have a surplus in your household budget, what's the best use for it? Does it make more sense to pay down debt or to invest those extra funds? With interest rates at such low levels, this is a question I've been hearing with increasing frequency. Implicit in this question is a [...]
Bear Market Field Guide, Part IX
Earlier this week, I came across a magazine article from the B.C. era—before coronavirus. The article, which appeared in a recent issue of a popular personal finance magazine, described a certain type of bond investment. The write-up was well researched and balanced, including a discussion of the [...]
Bear Market Field Guide, Part VII
When I was in grade school, I distinctly remember a field trip to visit a high-flying local company called Prime Computer. At the time, in the 1980s, Prime was a Fortune 500 company with a popular line of minicomputers and a runaway stock. But today, Prime is long gone and barely remembered. [...]
What to think about the man who solved the market
This week saw the publication of a remarkable biography. The Man Who Solved the Market chronicles the life and career of hedge fund manager James Simons. Over the past 31 years, Simons’s Medallion Fund has clocked average returns of 66% per year. Even after Medallion's fees—which are the highest in [...]
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