At Bloomberg, John Authers explains how Apple and other FANG+ stocks are breaking the way active mutual fund managers work. He writes: The FANG phenomenon is adding to the torture for active investment managers, as the latest report into U.S. mutual funds’ holdings from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. illustrates. It is only possible to beat […]
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How You Should Invest Today: Part II
These two charts (below) on Dover Corp. and Procter & Gamble show you long-term compounded dividend and stock price growth for both. In both cases, the long-term trend shows a pattern of consistent annual dividend growth matched with long-term stock price appreciation. In Dover’s case, the dividend has compounded at an 8.9% rate of growth […]
How You Should Invest Today: Part I
Originally posted August 17, 2020. Charles Dow created the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in 1896. Originally the Dow had 12 companies: American Cotton Oil; American Sugar; American Tobacco; Chicago Gas; Distilling & Cattle Feeding; General Electric; Laclede Gas; National Lead; North American; Tennessee Coal and Iron; U.S. Leather; U.S. Rubber Not one of the original 12 DJIA stocks remain today as DJIA components. That […]
Ron Paul: “Freedom and Central Banking Are Not Compatible”
Originally posted August 3, 2020. In my 1987 book The Financial Armadillo Strategy, I focused on my long-term fear of (1) inflation, (2) printing money to balance the books, and (3) the highly leveraged position of the US Banking system. I offered a multi-layered platform for investing during the expected financial blow-off I feared was […]
Every Investor Must Have a 5/10% Gold Hedge
Jeff Deist of LewRockwell.com writes abridged: Fed Bugs are people with a faith-based belief in the power of central banks (and central bankers) to engineer economic growth using “monetary policy, “despite decades of history and current evidence to the contrary. They believe tinkering with inputs and rates and velocity and flows somehow makes us richer […]
Yes, You’ve Met Ronald Read in Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report
You may be familiar with Ronald Read’s story. It’s a story worth telling over and over and over again to anyone you know. My father in law Dick Young wrote in May 2015: Hard to even comprehend, but this great story, courtesy the WSJ‘s Anna Prior, recounts how Ronald Read accumulated an estate valued at almost $8 million. […]
Monetary Heart Attacks Likely to Lead to S&P 500 Crash
My charts (the Fed’s EKG) on high powered money and M2 growth point clearly to undisciplined chaos at the Fed. Do you see any instance of such chaos in preceding decades? No! Indeed, payday will arrive. The table indicating my own program of gold buying gives you a look at one of a number of […]
Dump All Low Yielding US Treasuries Now
Today we have a situation where the Fed has forced individual investors with life-time savings to subsidize corporate buybacks, acquisitions, and Wall Street banking industry borrowing and speculating. It’s what I call de facto robbing and stealing. In reality, the Fed is nothing more than a private club to favor corporate and banking elites. When […]
Is COVID-19 Going to Kill the Dollar?
Caitlin Ostroff reports at The Wall Street Journal on traders favoring the euro over the dollar in light of differences in the response to COVID-19 in each currency’s area. She writes: The euro traded near a two-year high against the dollar on signs that Europe has largely slowed down coronavirus infections and taken steps toward […]
My 10 Point Investment Plan: Pretty Much the Same as Back in 1990
Back then I offered subscribers to my investment strategy report a ten-point investment guide for the long term. The basic plan is today, thirty years later, pretty much unchanged. Make capital preservation your number one target Make dividends the cornerstone of your core equity portfolio Never forget the power of compound interest Make equities, not […]
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