Deflation: A Primer (Mar 04)

Posted on December 23, 2005

by Will Hepburn Deflation: a Primer Econ 101 says inflation is when too may dollars chase too few goods and prices go up. Deflation, on the other hand, is when too many goods chase too few dollars and prices go down. Right now the world has excess factories producing the “too many goods” and this is the beginning of deflation. Since we haven’t had deflation since

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Don’t Get Railroaded by Wall Street

Posted on December 22, 2005

Don’t Get Railroaded by Wall Street Stock market investing isn’t always as easy as it seemed in the 1990s. Over 200 years of stock market history shows us that there have been seven generation-long bear markets that averaged 14 years in length, during which times money in the stock market generally lost purchasing power. Buy-and-Hold investors often suffer huge losses during these periods, yet traditional financial

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The Edge Provided by Active Management

Posted on November 3, 2004

The Edge Provided by Active Management Whether we realize it or not, studies show that mass marketing has a tremendous impact on us, especially if we are investors. It seems that every week I hear a market expert touting the benefits of long-term passive investing. While returns from passive investing have clearly proven to be anything but reliable, Wall Street’s propaganda machine continues the drum beat

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