The view expressed in my last post goes doubly now. The group of mostly tech stocks I bought in early 2009, which were up 300+% by the end of last year, are down near the original purchase prices now. What does this mean? It means that an exit strategy is an important component of any [...]

One Optimist’s Changed Perspective
The market just doesn’t seem to have any legs. Despite a sea of bad economic news, there is occasionally some good news about corporate profits that should stimulate buying activity in those stocks. As it turns out, the general mood of the market squelches that possibility.
As someone who had always believed in [...]

It is a good time of year to say Thank You to those people who unselfishly provide good money management advice to regular people everywhere. During this Christmas season, it is even more important to remember one of the best of these people who died just over one year ago. (Dec. 6, 2008).  His name [...]

In November of 2007, I had an overwhelming impulse to bail out of the market.  Call it experience; call it a gut feeling or maybe a tip from God.  I just knew that I should move all of my holdings in my 401k plans out of the market and into cash. So that’s what I [...]

Does anyone doubt that psychology plays a major role in the movement of the stock market?  We see a bleak future and we sell our stocks. We see a perpetual down market and we resist buying stocks. We are sure that home prices can only go down, so we don’t buy that new home we [...]

I have been writing the content for a web site called The Bailout Blog for a client in California.  The bailout has been the subject of numerous headlines, talk shows and opinion pieces.  Most Americans very likely don’t fully understand the bailout, but have an opinion based on the headlines.
The bailout certainly has its pluses [...]

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