Hard or Soft Landing?

Posted on October 12, 2006

Hard or Soft Landing? I began warning readers about a possible business slowdown in our future back in March of this year. Now just about everyone who is paying attention to the news has heard similar projections from other analysts and signs of the slowdown are becoming more obvious. Real estate sales are slumping and the Congressional budget office is planning on an 8% drop

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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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The Only Thing We Have to Fear

Posted on January 15, 2003

The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself Franklin Roosevelt said that at his first inaugural address when the country was in the depths of the great depression. That depression was deflationary, and right now, this economy has businesses fighting the problems of deflation again. Our current economy is in no where near the sad shape of the 1930’s when banks failed en-masse and

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