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My Weight Problem and Your Investing Problem

Losing weight is very, very, very easy. Intellectually. And losing weight is very, very, very hard. Emotionally. I’ve come to believe that it’s the s[...] read more »
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Ten MUST READ Investment Books

Where do you get your “how to” knowledge of the stock market? Do you seek “how to” knowledge of the stock market? Or do you rely on other sources to [...] read more »
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Eeyore and Tigger on Stock Investing Risk

What’s the one thing about stock investing you don’t like? It’s the risk, right? Everybody is happy with the returns provided by stocks. But the risk[...] read more »
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The REAL Reason for Investment Bubbles: Bubble Logic

So what is “bubble logic”? It’s magical thinking. Magical thinking never works in the real world. read more »
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What’s So Bad About Buy-and-Hold?

The trouble is that Buy-and-Hold comes so tantalizingly close to being the perfect investing strategy that it has taken in millions of smart and good[...] read more »
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A Truly Simple Way to Invest in Stocks

Simplicity is not just a nice thing in an investing strategy. It is imperative for those who want their strategies to work in the real world... read more »
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Don’t Beat Yourself Up Over Your Investing Mistakes

We all make mistakes. The thing to do is to acknowledge them and move on. We possess today more knowledge about what works in stock investing than an[...] read more »
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Market Timing Is Frugality Applied to Stock Investing

There are few people who are opposed to frugality. The one big exception is in the purchase of stocks. But this is how frugality can work when appli[...] read more »
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Five Reasons Why We Don’t Want to Know How to Invest Effectively

We all now have available to us a far more effective way to invest than we have ever had available to us before. read more »
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Stock Cycles Make It Hard to Walk the Buy-and-Hold Walk

Investors who ignore the reality of stock cycles often reassure themselves that they will come through dark economic times with decent lifetime stock[...] read more »
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2010 Was the Worst Year in Housing Ever—So Is Now the Time to Buy?

How to avoid being a victim of a false start in housing... read more »
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What Buffett isn’t telling us…at least not loudly

There are millions of people who are going to suffer failed retirements because they never “got it” re valuations. There are hundreds of calculators [...] read more »
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How Do We Know When Stocks Are Overvalued?

Forget about counting on the experts to warn you when valuations have gotten out of hand. It’s only when most experts do not see a problem that ther[...] read more »
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…And the Bull Shall Lie Down with the Bear

Everyone understands the need we all face to get a good price on the cars we buy. We need to change our understanding of how stock investing works to[...] read more »
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Knowing the Mathematics of Investing Hurts More Than It Helps

I don’t want to talk about alpha and beta. What I want to talk about is why they don’t matter-and why the experts talk about them as if they do. That[...] read more »
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