A Wealth of Common Sense. Investor, author, and host of Animal Spirits podcast, focuses on simplifying finance for everyone; has backed over 200 companies.
As a torchbearer for long-term investing I’ve heard the phrase now show Japan about a million times.
Those three words were one of the biggest inspirations for me writing Risk & Reward.
How could you possibly invest for the long-run in stocks when a situation like Japan exists?
It’s a fair question.
Japan is the subject that has come up the most times in all of the interviews I’ve done for the book...
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Further Reading:
Picking the Losers it Easier Than Picking the Winners in the Stock Market
Now here’s what I’ve been reading lately:
Financial independence vs. retirement (Whitecoat Investor)
Face it: You’re a crazy person (Experimental History)
A bull market in nostalgia (Chart Kid Matt)
No one has it all figur...
We also discussed stock market concentration, the two biggest market risks right now, earnings growth and where the fast money will go next.
Further Reading:
How Do You Invest During a Bubble?
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There are certain financial scripts ingrained in our culture when it comes to real estate.
A house is your biggest investment.
Renting is throwing away your money to pay someone else’s mortgage.
Housing prices always go up.
When you retire it’s time to downsize and move to the beach or golf course.
Rules of thumb are meant to be broken.
Here’s a recent story from The Wall Street Journal:
These are some ...
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On today’s show, we discuss:
What the post-GFC distressed era taught us about today’s market
Why abundant private capital has helped businesses stave off distress
Why recent redemptions reflect a flows event, not a credit event
How to properly educate investors on privat...
