In 2005, the comedian Stephen Colbert popularized the word “truthiness.” This term, if you're not familiar with it, refers to something which seems like it should be true but isn't actually supported by evidence. Are stock market pundits guilty of truthiness? To answer this question, [...]
Succeeding like Kanye
Kanye West, it turns out, is one heck of an investor. According to a recent analysis, a group of West's stock picks this year has beaten the overall market by forty percentage points. It's an astonishing result. What, if anything, can we learn from it? First, some background: As you may know, West [...]
Great Eight
In 2013 a curious thing happened in Stockholm. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in economics to three academics who had developed theories about stock prices. What was odd was that two of the recipients — Eugene Fama and Robert Shiller — couldn't have been more opposed [...]
Staying off the roller-coaster
I have a question for you which is, admittedly, a trick question: Should you invest in technology stocks, such as Apple? My answer: Yes, certainly. Another question (also a trick question): Should you invest in the stocks of entertainment companies like Netflix? My answer: Again, yes, of [...]
On average
Should you invest in the stock market? The answer to this question seems fairly obvious: Over the past ninety years, stocks have returned, on average, 10 percent per year, far outpacing bonds (about 5 percent) and cash (less than 3 percent). So, why am I asking if you should invest in stocks? The [...]
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