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  • Remember, Investors: This Too Shall Pass
    TANSTAAFL:

    PFE has a dividend payout ratio that approaches 1 and a PEG ratio of 7.33. LIPITOR will run out of patent protection soon and it isn't clear what will replace it. Obama's health care reforms will have to deal with drug costs, likely resulting in lower profits for the drug makers, since those costs are one of the big drivers of health care inflation.
    Jan 07 12:52 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • The Great Consumer Crash of 2009
    The author needs to learn the difference between average and median and when it is appropriate to use one vs the other. When Bill Gates builds a house, the average house price looks way out of reach.

    For an alternative take on CC debt, see:

    articles.moneycentral....
    Aug 15 16:04 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Delusions of Debt
    Please explain to me how you can meaningfully compare the purchasing power of a 1914 dollar with a 2008 dollar when 90% of the things that are sold in the market today did not exist in 1914.

    IIRC, one of the Rothschild's died in the 1800s from an infection that we would cure today with $4.00 worth of antibiotics. All of his gold couldn't save him. I'll happily take today's goods and prices over the goods and prices of 1914 any day!
    Aug 04 13:04 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Bonds: No Inflation Threat in Sight
    The argument that rates are low and thus don't reflect inflation because there has been a "flight to safety" seems fishy. If you expect your "safe" investment to be eaten up by inflation, then it isn't really "safe", is it?
    Jul 10 14:20 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Ben Bernanke: What Kind of Bird Is This?
    What is the MZW in your graph?
    Jun 17 14:37 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Passive Investing Wisdom from Taylor Larimore
    Neither George Soros nor Julian Robertson have been able to time the markets both successfully and consistently. They have done better than most, but they have also had blowups that cost their funds billions.
    Jun 16 12:36 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • 1990 All Over Again?
    Tom Lindmark --

    Good point. That is why it pays to read the footnotes:

    Please note breaks in data: Data prior to 2003-01-01 include adjustment, extended, and seasonal credit. Data from 2003-01-01 to 2007-11-01 include primary, secondary, and seasonal credit. Data from 2007-12-01 to 2008-02-01 include primary, secondary, seasonal, and term auction credit. Data from 2008-03-01 forward include primary, secondary, seasonal credit, primary dealer credit facility, other credit extensions, and term auction credit.

    This is a graph that has apples up until it has apples and oranges.
    May 15 14:15 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Buffett's Advice to the Berkshire Faithful: Buy Index Funds
    I'll bet bearfund has never beaten the indexes over, say, any given 10 year period in the past 50 years, especially after paying for all the expenses he has incured trying to figure out what might be likely (but is just as likely not to) outperform.

    Bogleheads rule!
    May 04 23:49 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Buffett's Advice to the Berkshire Faithful: Buy Index Funds
    Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund -- https://personal.vangu...

    Vanguard Total Market Index Fund -- https://personal.vangu...

    Vanguard Total International Stock Index -- https://personal.vangu...

    And maybe a bit of

    Vanguard REIT Index Fund -- https://personal.vangu...

    You'll do fine.
    May 04 21:25 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Global 'Oil Shock' Rattles World Stock Markets
    It was James Carville who wanted to be reincarnated as the bond market, not Robert Rubin. It is a notoriously well known quote. When an author can't be bothered to fact check the attribution of simple quotes, it throws all the rest of the analysis into doubt.
    Mar 14 14:49 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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