Newsletters

The Second Wave I hope the rumours are not true. I hope there are no such things as re-sets and Option ARM and ALT-A mortgages... Read More →

Short Sighted I wonder why we do it every year. Every New Year’s season we like to look back at the old year: what happened... Read More →

The role of fear in ROR It’s still like Halloween 2009. The media still has us in the grip of fear. Every day we hear... Read More →

Wasting Away… The financial industry normally reserves the word “crash” for a one-day occurrence. But, according to internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, the 1929 crash actually occurred... Read More →

Pension Plan Blues The buzz words of the 1990’s mutual fund and high tech boom were: “Buy and hold blue chip stocks for the long... Read More →

What does buy and hold truly mean? The March-April newsletter was closed out with a brief synopsis of a complex topic: Modern Portfolio Theory and... Read More →

Financial Morality “Love of money is the root of all evil.” When we think of good and evil in investing, we usually think of whether... Read More →

Two Big Three’s Amidst all the auto bail out bumph of late 2008, we heard the phrase “Gradual Bankruptcy.” Some US politician was commenting on... Read More →

Stop the Bubble Machine Okay, you’re an investor. The family next door bought their house for $400,000 a few years ago with no down payment... Read More →

Economic Tsunami:The Crest of the Wave The ripple began 2 or 3 years ago. Then the US subprime mortgage wave hit the headlines 14 months... Read More →