So your seventh-grader comes home from school today and tells you how much she loved playing cross-fire (dodgeball to you/me) in P.E. because she hit Tyler smack in the face. Shocked at the sadistic nature of your little angel’s act, you sternly inquire as to why on earth she would enjoy hurting another child. She [...]

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Frustrated that your portfolio’s not back to its October 2007 peak? Doubting the old conventional buy and hold wisdom? Well folks, I’ve discovered the answer (you can now forget about all that asset allocation and rebalancing garbage I’ve been preaching for so long). I literally spent every afternoon last week watching CNBC and I’ve come [...]

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When was the last time you called a tech helpline and spoke with an individual who you weren’t convinced was maybe mid-way through his ESL (English as a Seventh Language) course? Put together your own blog site in mid-October and expect to be stalled for a few days while the techs your consultant hired celebrate [...]

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Once every blue moon someone will ask why we don’t time the stock market. My pat reply is always “I’m afraid we’d totally screw up and get it right the very first time”. Seriously, the worst thing that could happen would be to sell right at the peak – or buy right at the trough [...]

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Sectors Outlook In spite of this politically fine mess we find ourselves in, when we look at the market, sector by sector, things don’t appear to be all that bad. The following by the way is no prediction, just my commentary on the major sectors and their prospects going forward. Your portfolio’s overall allocation (stocks [...]

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Today’s politician “My interview begins in fifteen minutes. The polls suggest I’m losing ground to an up-and-comer from the dark side. My colleagues’ scandals are killing me – I’m guilty by association. All I’ve worked for, all the strategizing, my ascent to the political heights I’ve dreamed of since my senior class president days is [...]

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