Wonderfully concise. Reminds me of Buffett's presentation at Sun Valley where he outlined how stocks went nowhere from the 70s to 80s, even though there was strong GDP growth in the US. It's a si...
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Tough love and cold data from the esteemed Mr. Batnick. Love this blog!
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Great background info. I'm 67% most statistics are made up on the spot. Just kidding. I enjoy your articles.
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"The stock market is a voting machine rather than a weighing machine." Loved that.
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Its so true
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Thank you. This is timely and appropriate advice as I prepare to meet with clients who came on board last April. Even with the most widely diversified asset classes and the least expensive ETF's,...
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Markets are in the midst of a 10% correction 55% of the time. (Michael Batnick)
Nice post. Following you (and Carson and Housel, etc) I've noticed that it's really hard to write w/o falling into the "each case is different" trap. This post missed that by explaining an idea. ...
Michael - this is very interesting analysis. My concern is that anytime you do an analysis over such a long time horizon 1927-2015 then buy - hold would work. However this time line is unrealisti...
Why don't you compare buy and hold to timing strategy instead of this fluff crystal ball BS? You are smart and very well read. Why are you wasting your talent? You're better than this. You could ...