The high death toll that we’ve seen in nursing homes from COVID-19 has shocked people, but this goes on every year. This time around, people have really taken notice. Nursing home residents only represent 0.4% of the American population, but they have accounted for 40% of deaths attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. While a large […]

Just like losing teams tell us they will get them next year, losing investment strategies always say that their advantage will come next year. Wishing this so is never enough. You really have to wonder what has continued to inspire people to keep investing in all those actively managed investment funds year after year in […]

One of the things that we know for sure in this financial crisis is that our economy is taking a big hit. Top ranked Wall Street economist Nancy Lazar discusses what may be ahead. Back in the early days of the coronavirus, we marveled at China’s locking down their country and wondered what the global […]

The standard advice that investors get has them diluting their stock returns by balancing with bonds. We may want go the other way instead, to double down on our stock returns. Very few investors think all that much about what they invest in. They often will rely on professional advice, whether this be from a […]

Investors place huge sums of money into what are called value funds, hoping that these funds will outperform. It’s not enough to observe their failure, as we need to understand why. The concept of intrinsic value has always been one that has served to confuse a lot of investors. It’s not that the concept itself […]

Schwab’s chief investment strategist is telling us that we need to be wary of big growth stocks because they are riskier in bear markets. We’re seeing the opposite though. We often speak of all the misunderstanding that there is out there about risk with holding stocks, which mostly occurs from our looking to view risk […]

Most investors tend to build their strategies not so much for sunny days, but to prepare for when the rain comes. It’s raining hard now, which provides some valuable perspective. While the goal with investing surely is to make money over time, a lot of investors tend to be guided instead by confusion, which can […]

Harold Hamm of Continental Resources was already a critic of the futures market, but seeing it going into the red has him assuming that there must be misconduct involved. Harold Hamm has definitely distinguished himself as someone who knows the oil business. The United States was, not long ago, not all that big of a […]

Stock market strategist Peter Schiff was once regarded as “Dr. Doom” for his pessimistic views of the housing market. He’s seeing the potential for doom once again. Calling someone “Dr. Doom” is only an insult if the doom that you see is that exaggerated. Equity strategist and stock market commentator Peter Schiff did seem to […]

We often look to history to try to see the future, and this especially applies to stocks. History can be helpful, but we want to make sure that we don’t try to replace the present. As we continue to move further and further away from the stock market low that we put in on March […]