A Wealth of Common Sense. Investor, author, and host of Animal Spirits podcast, focuses on simplifying finance for everyone; has backed over 200 companies.
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We stayed at a nice hotel, walked around the city, did some shopping, ate some nice meals and consumed a few drinks. It was a nice time.
After dinner we took a stroll on the river walk.
It was a Tuesday night. All the bars and restaurants were full of people. They were eating, drinking, smiling and spending money on $19 cocktails.
I made ...
Long-term government bond yields are on the rise yet again:
On the one hand, 30 year Treasury yields are now the highest they have been since 2007, right before the onset of the Great Financial Crisis. Long bonds yielded around 1% in at the Covid crash nadir so they’ve come up a lot this decade.
On the other hand, the average yield in the past 50 years is 6.2%. From 1977 through the summer of 2001, yields on long b...
I love the stock market for a plethora of reasons.
It’s the greatest wealth-building machine ever created. It allows you to earn a piece of the profits in the growth and ingenuity of the biggest and best corporations.
Plus the stock market is like a laboratory for human psychology and emotions. Sometimes it makes sense. Sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes it goes insane…because people are insane!
The stock m...
A reader asks:
I’m a follower of all things RWM so couldn’t help but feel a theme of Ben’s book (namely how difficult it is to beat the market over short periods) seems to contradict the Porterhouse active management strategy the firm just put out. How would you articulate the value of an investment adviser making active decisions for some portion of a client’s portfolio if you simultaneously also ...
