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Here We Go Again - Another Wild Ride for Stock Markets

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[UPDATED – January 25, 2017] The DOW opened today above 20,000. The rally from 19,000 to 20,000 was one of the fastest in history. What do these numbers mean? We need to look back at the following from 2015 looking at the historical data.

Last week [August 2015] was one wild ride for stock markets around the world.

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Deconstructing Paranoia or Shadowboxing with the Fed

shadowboxing

I am a great admirer of those who have the ability and inclination to deconstruct great performance as well as negative ones too. Charlie Munger is famous for inverting. If you want to learn how to live a great life it can be just as valuable to educate oneself on the characteristics and quality of a miserable life.

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Averting Disaster-When a Financial Bubble Bursts

Wall StreetThis week [April 2015] the NASDAQ finally exceeded its previous high reached in March 2001. Here is a graph that shows what happens when a financial bubble bursts.

NASDAQ Composite Index Financial Bubble

Since 2009, however, it has been essentially a straight shot upward as if nothing were going to get in its way from reclaiming a new high.

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Good Intentions and The Lollapalooza Effect

Lollapalooza EffectThe old adage is that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. As Ben Graham said, it’s not the bad ideas that do you in, but the good ideas that go too far that can do the most damage. A perfect example of this was the drive for more Americans to own homes,

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Hamilton, Madison, and Brexit - Part 2

BrexitThis is part two of my blog post regarding Alexander Hamilton as well as James Madison as he is featured prominently this week. It seems particularly fitting to blog about this given the decision by U.K. voters to exit the European Union. Hamilton and Madison believed that factions were the greatest risk to good governance,

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