Prices look expensive on a variety of metrics. However, one reason to think they could stay expensive is that new housing starts collapsed after the…
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Has AI captured your imagination?
Nobel laureate economist Robert Shiller wrote a book just before the Covid pandemic called Narrative Economics. It’s about how human beings have the propensity to…
Morningstar’s Rekenthaler on retirement income
Retirees are always flummoxed by the question of how to generate income from their assets. But in this recent article, my former Morningstar colleague, John…
Prognosticators don’t know the future
Financial advisor, Adam Grossman, has written a good article about managing your emotions when it comes to reading the popular press on markets and the…
Equal Weight
In the latest edition of Wealthtrack with Consuelo Mack, risk expert Richard Bookstaber says he prefers equal weighted indices over capitalization weighted indices at this…
“Skinny Bull”
Barron’s writer Allan Sloan coined the phrase “skinny bull” in this article, where he describes how seven stocks — Apple, MIcrosoft, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta,…
What happened during the last debt ceiling crisis?
Brett Arends has another good article showing what happened during the last showdown between Democrats and Republicans over moving the debt ceiling higher Basically, long…
An advisor can help you save
In this MarketWatch article, financial journalist Brett Arends discusses an academic paper arguing that “talking to a financial adviser may be enough to dramatically boost…