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July 17, 2014
Racing fans betting on California Chrome were disappointed recently when he failed to win the Triple Crown, coming in fourth at the Belmont Stakes. The fact that he was an overwhelming favorite didn’t make the race’s outcome a forgone conclusion. It only made the risk-return ratio less...
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April 8, 2014
One of the more interesting events during this year’s first quarter had little to do with the economy or the stock market, but rather basketball. The Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, offered an astonishing $1 billion prize to anyone of fifteen million people who could successfully predict the...
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January 4, 2014
2013 exceeded the expectations of even the most optimistic of stock market prognosticators. To the utter dis-belief of the perennial skeptics, common stocks hit new all-time highs this past year with the Dow Jones Industrial Average blowing past 16,000 and the S&P 500 scaling 1,800. Posting...
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October 15, 2013
As adherents to the Efficient Market Theory we believe it is impossible to beat the market over the long-term on a risk-adjusted basis. Nor do we believe it is a worthwhile pursuit. A corollary to this proposition is our opinion that events which influence markets’ directions and securities’ ...
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July 12, 2013
The stock market proved an old adage last month as investors reacted negatively to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s recent comments regarding the central bank’s monetary policy in response to an improving economy. Go figure - the economy is finally showing signs of life and investors sell. ...
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April 4, 2013
Capital markets pressed relentlessly forward during the first quarter of 2013 as the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average both set record highs. Stocks continued to climb a wall of worry, recouping all the losses incurred during the financial crisis which began in October, 2007. This ...