It’s been a wild few years for investors in the stock market. We’ve seen big swings from fear (COVID outbreak in 2020 and interest rate hikes in 2022) to greed (‘meme’ stock idiocy in 2021 and ‘AI’ fueled euphoria in 2023). Throughout market history these cycles
At the end of May, some Christians were talking about how they are boycotting Target. This isn't the first time Christians have boycotted Target. Back in 2016 and again in 2018, there were boycotts because of Target's bathroom and fitting room policies changing – they announced that they were allowing transgenders
Last week I started the Musings with some quotes from some famous investment managers. The key takeaway from all of them was essentially, "stock prices reflect the feelings of the market at the current time not the underlying value of a company." Long-term, the true value always shakes out, but
“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent” – John Maynard Keynes
“Quotations fluctuate constantly, reacting often illogically to all sorts of temporary and even trivial influences.” – Benjamin Graham
“The Stock Market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both
The S&P 500 has risen 20% off the lows from last October, leading the financial media to declare a "new bull market". I cringed when the media declared a bear market simply because the market dropped 20% from its high. When the market first crossed the 20% threshold
