It seems that every time Apple’s stock price outperforms Wamsi Mohan’s’ view of the company’s near-term performance, he sees it as no longer a buy. In spite of Apple’s rising to becoming the world’s most valuable stock, where it has grown over 95,000% in the last 22 years, the road there has been paved with […]

Bad strategies die a slow death in the investment world, but they do eventually decay. The idea that book value bargains are a good idea isn’t quite dead yet it seems. Benjamin Graham is considered to be the father of value investing, a process of looking for bargains with stocks that have fallen out of […]

The huge bear market that hit stocks in 2000 is generally referred to as the tech bubble bursting, and some people are now in fear of the sky falling now in a similar fashion. With all the talk out there these days about the stock market allegedly moving toward another possible tech bubble bursting, we […]

Fisher Investments is a private money management firm located in Camas, Washington. It was founded in 1979 by Ken Fisher, who served as the company’s CEO until 2016, although he still serves as Chairman and co-CEO. They are a pretty big operation for a regional independent, with $100 billion under management and 3,500 employees, with […]

While retirement is a time to relax a lot more, where you sit back and collect, retirees need to be aware of the pitfalls out there when it comes to managing their tax obligations. You’ve worked hard to build a good-sized nest egg for your retirement, including a nice sized IRA to take you through […]

Not so long ago, back when the world was flying, the grounding of the 737-MAX was the biggest issue that Boeing has ever faced. The plane may be back in service soon. Boeing’s 737-MAX used to be the biggest story in aviation since the 9/11 attacks. Aside from the residual paranoia that was felt among […]

The Congressional Budget Office now estimates that the cost of the coronavirus lockdown will be $7.9 trillion. We’re now debating how these costs will be borne. The economic crisis of 2020 is certainly a unique situation, and certainly deserves unique attention. We’re still guessing at what the total bill from this will end up coming […]

CalPERS, like other public pension funds, have fallen well short of their funding requirements. This has caused them to open up a little, in a way that is at least a start. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, known as CalPERS/Calpers, is the largest public pension fund in the United States, with $400 billion in […]

The U.S. dollar has been the world’s dominant currency for a very long time, but Yale economist Stephen Roach sees this coming to an and with the U.S. dollar set to collapse. Among the victims of the economic lockdown that most of the country had put into place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic is […]

In the aftermath of the civil unrest that accompanied the recession of 2008, Ray Dalio has been predicting something much bigger coming with the next one, and he was right. Just about no one saw this coming, the extent of the unrest in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the hand of […]