You’ve read about low bond yields. Well, the yields may be low, but bonds, they’ve protected portfolios like bubble wrap. (See the chart of Counterbalanced Total Returns below for the returns of bonds in years when the stock market has fallen). What investors forget time and time again, is that the key to investing is […]
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Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: Part V
You want to do what you’ve dreamt about, right? Well, a client of mine is doing just that while on sabbatical, as he cleans up his gardening shed, and spends more time helping his parents get their estate in order. He’s doing the things we always think about but have a hard time actually doing. […]
Another Health Plague – Congress’s Spending Disease and Corona Virus
In another show of political opportunism, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have yet another gripe. This time it’s funding for fighting Corona Virus, reports the WSJ. Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the request “long overdue and completely inadequate.” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called the Administration’s proposal to tap some of the money from an Ebola […]
Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: Part IV
Who loves a market-rattling pandemic more than CNBC? It’s a ratings bonanza that allows them to fill the airwaves with 24/7 fear, and when there isn’t a pandemic, they fill it up with fast-money greed—sell, sell, sell, buy, buy, buy. Same old tune, different day. Imagine if you could get away from it all and […]
“If You Are an Investor Read This Now!”
If You Are an Investor Read This Now! — Dick Young Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: Part III Stocks have lost close to 2,000 points over the last two days. Futures are up a little this morning as I write to you but that doesn’t mean anything really, which reminds me, the less you dwell on […]
Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: Part II
Yesterday you read that the coronavirus was causing panic in markets, sending stock prices plummeting. Below you can see that, while DJIA stock prices fell 3.54% in yesterday’s turmoil, bond prices (as measured by the Ryan/NASDAQ Laddered Treasury Index) rose 1.05%, a difference of 4.59% over stocks. If you don’t understand the value of bonds, […]
Coronavirus Infects Stock Market
Over the past 52-weeks, you’ve received over five percent on any combination of short to mid-term agency, corporate, and/or treasury bonds, and that’s not counting today’s expected bond rally. Remember, bonds tend to go up when stocks go down. As the coronavirus creates panic for stock investors (futures are way down as I write to […]
Coronavirus and China: Like Something out of “1984”
In another thoughtful column, Victor Davis Hanson discusses how terrifying the Chinese Communist government really is: From Townhall: The Chinese communist government increasingly poses an existential threat not just to its own 1.4 billion citizens but to the world at large. China is currently in a dangerously chaotic state. And why not, when a premodern […]
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