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Investment Retrospective A Preemptive Portfolio Protection Strategy A participant in the morning Working Capital Model (WCM) investment workshop observed: I've noticed that my account balances are returning to their (June 2007) levels. People are talking down the economy and the dollar. Is there any preemptive... ( added 29 days 11 hours ago.)

How To Create A Fairer Tax Environment Can lawmakers who don't have the courage or intelligence to outlaw texting while driving really be expected to create a saner tax structure? Hmmm. Developing a fairer tax environment is much less an economics problem than it is a political... ( added 35 days 11 hours ago.)

Stock Market Correction Dead?! Actually, hindsight and the Investment Grade Value Stock Index (IGVSI) Bargain Level Monitor tell us that it died early in March 2009. More realistically, however, corrections don't die quite so abruptly. They are supplanted by rallies--- and vice... ( added 49 days 11 hours ago.)

How To Stimulate Consumer Spending And Jumpstart The Economy My survey produced an interesting anomaly--- several respondents felt that excessive consumer spending was the primary cause of the economic problems we face today, and that spending is not to be encouraged. But the root problem they were... ( added 59 days 13 hours ago.)

How To Create More Jobs America My recent survey produced a variety of ideas, but most of them had these common elements: replace the Internal Revenue Code with a simpler model, encourage businesses to increase employment, and insist upon tort reform everywhere. It also... ( added 69 days 13 hours ago.)

Investment Performance Expectations and Broker Account Statements As impossible as it is to predict the future of the markets, it's relatively easy to anticipate what you are going to experience when you view your next brokerage account statement. Whether you go the discount route through Schwab, Ameritrade... ( added 80 days 12 hours ago.)

Golf and Investing: Optimism, Focus, and Education You knew it the moment it left the club, that spark at contact when you catch it just right. You look up. It's just reaching the top of its climb--- and heading down right at the pin, a pin positioned left of center on the elevated green, much too... ( added 83 days 11 hours ago.)

Health Care Reform or Welfare Program--- Who Pays the Bill? The White House has released another of its health care reform clarification emails--- there will be more. It seems strange to me that the focus is on insurance coverage rather than on the spiraling costs of health care itself. Frankly, the... ( added 94 days 12 hours ago.)

Investment Scam Alert 2009: Spread the Word This is a real world situation that could impact each of you as professionals, investors, and friends of persons who could fall for such schemes. So please get angry about it! An envelope arrived yesterday from a worried investor (not a client... ( added 100 days 8 hours ago.)

How's Your Investment Portfolio Doing? Seven Long-Term Indicators Before Wall Street and the media combined to make investors think of calendar quarters as "short-term" and single years as "long-term", market cycles were used as true tests of investment strategies over the long haul. Bor-ing. There were four... ( added 135 days 11 hours ago.)

May The Investment Force Be With You Investment markets got you down, Bunkie? Been blown away by derivative stun guns? When will portfolio market values move back to 2007 levels--- and then what will you do about it? It's time to overthrow the evil Masters of the Universe and... ( added 143 days 9 hours ago.)

Golf and Investing Lessons: Working The Ball I think it was the immortal Ben Hogan who quipped: I can put "left" on the ball and I can put "right" on the ball--- "straight" is essentially an accident. Most amateur golfers would make a slightly different observation. We can hit the ball left... ( added 158 days 10 hours ago.)

Golf and Investing: Tin Cup Lessons Benjamin Graham was an economist, financial analyst, and professional value investor. He was one of the first to advise investors to look beyond the media hype and confusion to find undervalued stocks that would become part of a diversified... ( added 179 days 10 hours ago.)

Investment Performance Evaluation Re-Evaluated: Part One It matters not what lines, numbers, indices, or gurus you worship, you just can't know for certain where the stock market is going or when it will change direction. Too much investor time and analytical effort is wasted trying to predict course... ( added 212 days 13 hours ago.)

Stock Market Corrections Are Beautiful--- And Necessary Every correction is the same, a normal downturn in one or more of the markets where we invest. There has never been a correction that has not proven to be an investment opportunity. You can be confident that governments around the world are not... ( added 216 days 13 hours ago.)

Who Created The Financial Crisis - How And Why "The Big Takeover" by Matt Taibbi is probably the best article written to date explaining the financial crisis and how we got to where we are now. Taibbi's necessarily lengthy article explains the problems, names the "poipetrators", and exposes... ( added 241 days 12 hours ago.)

The President's $10,000,000,000,000 Economic Stimulus Package For homeowners: Cut the interest rate on all mortgage loans by 50 basis points and extend the payment schedule by three to five years. Convert all variable rate loans to fixed, at prevailing rates, and extend the payment schedule by six to ten... ( added 271 days 12 hours ago.)

Investors Review Their Best Investment Book "My wife was trying to sleep and she's waking up and saying "What's wrong with you?" What could I tell her, that I was cracking up over a financial book---?" "As I approach retirement in a few years, I'm very encouraged by the cash flow my... ( added 296 days 13 hours ago.)

"Jim Dandy To The Rescue"--- Of The Economy More than fifty years ago, LaVern Baker & The Gliders, brought Jim Dandy into the fray to lasso runaway horses, dry the tears in little girls' eyes, and to save special mermaids from the hooks of villainous fishermen. (Black Oak Arkansas'... ( added 300 days 6 hours ago.)

Crisis Investing - A Three-Pronged WCM Strategy One of the great things about being a professional investor is the opportunity one has to apply his or her long-term experience to the investment environment that is unfolding (or coming unglued) in the present. If nothing else, most... ( added 307 days 5 hours ago.)

Wall Street Bailout, Congressional Cover-up, or Sarbanes-Oxley? Every new controversy demands a look at similar situations of the past. Just what is a bailout anyway? In the early 80's, Lee Iacocca arranged a government loan and tax concessions to bring Chrysler Corporation back from the brink of bankruptcy---... ( added 1 year 55 days ago.)

Stock Market Meltdown - Watching Rome Burn Both presidential candidates want to crucify SEC Chairman Cox for failing to control our creative financial institutions. But rumor has it that Congress specifically excluded the devilish derivatives from SEC purview. Let's fire the right bunch of... ( added 1 year 58 days ago.)

Amazon's Best Investment Book Reviews: Have You Been Brainwashed? Most popular investment books are published for the already rich and famous, by an industry that has become just too good at the business of selling books. Rarely will a publisher take a chance with the work of an unknown author. Certainly, it's a... ( added 1 year 68 days ago.)

Retirement Income Investment Planning - Step One Your retirement income investment plan starts now, right now, no matter how old or well heeled you happen to be. Step One is to understand what a retirement plan is, and to identify the three large numbers you need to keep track of while you are... ( added 1 year 76 days ago.)

Income Investing: Go Ask Alice Jefferson Airplane has never, ever, been mistaken for a band of financial advisors, but the White Rabbit lyrics can be incredibly instructional to the generation of investors who experienced the classic first hand--- as a description of their own... ( added 1 year 94 days ago.)