Winning By Deception
“Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.† ~ Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince How to make money in this market? It’s easier if you start with some… Wolf …
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Stocks Climb Higher On Monday
Monday’s stock market action brought more bullishness at the beginning of a week which will bring some important economic data. With the advance estimate of third-quarter GDP scheduled for release …
Read More E Twitter Up, Teva Down, Blackberry… Dead? And Other Top Stories & Scandals
Twitter Goes Up Twitter’s IPO is, as expected, garnering as much attention as Facebook’s not too long ago. But unlike Facebook, Twitter’s conservative and conscientious approach seems to be only spurring demand. …
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The Q Ratio And Market Valuation: Monthly Update
The Q Ratio is a popular method of estimating the fair value of the stock market developed by Nobel Laureate James Tobin. It’s a fairly simple concept, but laborious to …
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Stock World Weekly is the weekly newsletter from Phil’s Stock World. Don’t bother looking at the economy to decide whether to buy or sell stocks. Joshua M Brown notes in Keep …
Read More EC Federal Revenues Signal Economic Snap Back
U.S. Treasury Building Cash The Federal Government’s revenues have rebounded sharply over the past two weeks, suggesting that the economy has snapped back to trend, with no lasting effects from the …
Read More The Bank Guarantee That Bankrupted Ireland
The Irish have a long history of being tyrannized, exploited, and oppressed—from the forced conversion to Christianity in the Dark Ages, to slave trading of the natives in the 15th …
Read More E EC Too Many Quarterlies
Too Many Quarterlies S&P Dow Jones Indices is reclassifying Greece from Developed Market to Emerging Market status. Countries usually move in the other direction. More from India, Israel, Ireland, South Korea, …
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E Today’s DailyTalk
Reasearchers at Oregon Health & Science University’s Knight Cancer Institute stopped a double blind study of a new drug for prostate cancer. Patients in the placebo group were switched to the real drug, Enzalutamide, because the results …
Read More EC The S&P 500 Has Not Been Particularly Difficult To Beat…
I know this statement is in direct conflict with the teachings of modern finance. Modern finance provides us with multiple studies that, if taken at face value, offer a pretty convincing …
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