Technical analysis can be a very useful tool if used appropriately, when used to mark out trends and trend reversals, but we need to make sure that we don’t try to do too much with it. Many people view the task of technical analysis is to use chart patterns to determine how an asset’s price […]

If you start with the hypothesis that the price of stocks should represent the overall economy, maybe it’s not so strange that you would try to blame someone when you are proven wrong. There’s no question that economic crises and bear markets with stocks can happen together, and it’s actually pretty unusual that we see […]

It’s not that the Nasdaq has hit another bear market or anything, and the 1.1% that this index dropped this week is not even meaningful. The bears are really taking notice though. People seem to be paying a lot of attention to the Nasdaq this week, given that the other two major indexes, the S&P […]

It should not come as a surprise to anyone that investors allow their political biases to influence their investing views and decisions. We need to understand what biases we have. People struggle enough with trying to figure out what they should be doing with their stock portfolios to want to make this task even more […]

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 […]

Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden has been promising to build back better. Better seems to include throwing a lot of money away on his pet projects. It is no secret that the Republican Party in the U.S. is known for its greater focus on economic prosperity overall, where the Democratic Party has other priorities. It […]

The Great Recession of 2008 is most famous for the massive default rate we saw with mortgage backed securities. Don’t look now, but this problem is back, and in a big way. While just about everyone who was around during the financial crisis before this one, an economic downturn severe enough to not just be […]

Facebook is no stranger to controversy, and in spite of all the attacks they have endured, they always managed to bounce back. They even brush off widespread boycotts. If you build a better mousetrap like Facebook has, and your mousetrap works amazingly well in practice, you can stand to take a few jolts here and […]

Capitalism has always been at the heart of America, and capitalist opportunity is what has defined the country the most. Current Democrats want to put the brakes on it. The American Revolution that was fought almost 250 years ago arose out of a thirst for the freedom to control our own destiny and to get […]

When an investment really doesn’t grow much and you are down to dividends to make money, your dividends better be good. REITs have been cutting them, but the bleeding may have stopped. People love to invest in real estate, and naturally prefer investing that is easy over more difficult and complicated means like actually buying […]