fbpx

Subtle Trends of the Asset Management Industry

Looking for some good news and a reason to ramp up your individual investor skills? Ben Carlson’s piece, There’s Never Been a Better Time to Be and Individual Investor (Fortune) reviews some of the ‘long haul’ variables that are often overlooked by investors. Read it...

Fools Rush In? The Underperformance of Value Stocks

Julie Segal compares the Contrarian Investor or market manager with those who view value stocks management as more of a cyclical dance? She takes Andrew Dyson’s (CEO of quant manager QMA) questions about cycles and does a deeper dive into historical behavior and where...

High Stock Prices; A Cause for Economic Concern?

Speaking of the stock market, Rob Bennett wonders out loud in his piece, The Economic Crisis of 2008 Did Not End, It has Been in Remission, if today’s high stock prices will likely cause an economic collapse should consumer spending take a dive. Many have argued that...

Black Monday – Could the Stock Market Crash Again?

Simon Black reviews three insights into the 1929 crash in his piece, Three things you didn’t know about the crash of 1929. Is the stock market really worth it? Can the feds print enough money monthly to keep it afloat? Take a deeper dive into Simon’s thoughts...

The Global Economy in Swiss Watch Economics

Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge examines an unusual set of data points for economic comparison — high end Swiss Watch exports — and finds an interesting correlation to the health of the global economy: Year-to-date data is a mirror of other economic indicators: the US is...

Are Massive Liquidity Injections by the Feds the New Normal? Why?

In his Opinion piece for Market Watch, Sven Henrich goes in search of the answer to several questions, beginning with, “What stable financial system requires over $100 billion in overnight liquidity injections? The Fed did not see the need for these actions...