Happy Thanksgiving week! I’m sure we have a lot going on and maybe don’t want to think about what’s going on with the market, so let’s keep this short. With a crazy market year starting to wind down, we have a new week of data to
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Fear and greed are both strong emotions which cause us to often make irrational decisions. During bull markets FOMO "fear of missing out" leads to seemingly unstoppable rallies despite little fundamental logic for the rally. Sure, we convince ourselves there is a good reason for a specific stock or the
We're used to things being resolved in short order. I'd like to say that's a function of today's always-connected world where we can find pretty much anything we want on demand. A study of history and human behavior tells us its not the technology that makes us impatient, but instead
I used to manage individual stock portfolios......back in the 1990s. I described myself as a Warren Buffett/Peter Lynch style manager. Buy companies you understand with good business models selling products people want at a fair price. This was the philosophy I followed. I felt like I was a
Back in February during the 10 day S&P 500 correction I introduced an analogy about speeding (click here to read it.) Back then the “car in the median” was inflation. My conclusion then was it was not a cop, but enough people were racing along at