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A historical look at trend-following during bull markets.
A historical look at trend-following during bull markets.
This week’s Animal Spirits is sponsored by MarketSmith: Go to www.investors.com/animal to receive your first three weeks of the MarketSmith service for just $19.95. We discuss: Why Michael is getting back into trading Facebook’s new cryptocurrency Is it a good thing more professional investors are buying up starter homes? Should Vanguard get into private equity? Should the…
Simply change the start and end dates to win any market debate.
Just as everyone projected, interest rates have fallen off a cliff since peaking at more than 3.2% last fall: Just kidding. Basically no one saw this coming: The decline has caught nearly everyone by surprise. In January, none of the 69 economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal predicted yields would fall below 2.5% by…
In today’s edition, Michael Batnick, Ben Carlson and Downtown Josh Brown answer a very simple question that doesn’t necessarily have a simple answer. “Where should a new investor begin?
The parallels between fitness and finance.
Michael & Ben discuss what they’re reading, watching, listening to, and thinking about on this week’s new Animal Spirits podcast.
A reader asks: Why do we need inflation? This is a good question because wouldn’t we all be better off if prices were to fall? It’s not always that easy.
Michael & Ben sit down with Irusha Peiris of MarketSmith to discuss the psychology behind trading stocks & what’s required to pull it off.
Josh Brown and Ben Carlson discuss a what-if about the potential ramifications if the cost of capital remains low for an extended period of time.