Is history a reliable guide? Let me tell you a story. On our research trip to Paris, we spent time on the left bank staying at Hotel & Spa D’Aubusson. At the morning buffet, it could have been easy to go for the morning pastries but using a bit (I said a bit) of self-control, […]
Investing
Here’s an Investment You Can Sink Your Teeth Into
Happy November. Hope you made it a good month. When stocks are up 14% for the month, it’s hard not to. Why? Because it was the best month for the Dow Jones Industrial Average since January 1976, the same month Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody topped the charts. That’s a lot of months in between then and […]
Your Survival Guy’s Hunkering Down in His Cave, Join Me
Happy Friday. What a trashing in the tech sector. Meta is off 70% year to date, Amazon is getting trashed this morning, and Apple’s earnings disappoint. Your Survival Guy can tell you my new iPhone 14 Pro is heavy and glitchy. iPhones account for half of Apple’s revenues. Seems top-heavy to me. When you look […]
UK Pension Industry Is Looking for a Scapegoat
Your Survival Guy has long observed that the average pension manager can’t live in a two percent world. And guess what—when the going gets tough, the pension manager takes on more risk to save his job rather than being a fiduciary shepherd for his flock. Now the UK is looking for someone to blame for […]
My Money Sleeps: “I Never Bought a Car as an Investment in My Life,” Jay Leno
“I never bought a car as an investment in my life,” explained Jay Leno back in 2015 when a guy offered him $12 million for a McLaren he had bought twenty years prior for $800k (watch the video below for why he doesn’t sell). Gale Warning During Newport’s Concours and Motor Week “I work, and […]
Gale Warning During Newport’s Concours and Motor Week
Happy Monday from Your Survival Guy. What a weekend. Weather-wise a rainout, which is a shame because it was Newport’s Concours & Motor Week—celebrating the history of sportsmanship and motoring. Your Retirement Life: The New Mustang Arrives Here was the forecast Sunday morning: “Gale Warning in Effect through Monday Morning, at 7:02am EDT Sunday Oct. […]
What You Start to See Is a Death Spiral
Your Survival Guy is never surprised about these headlines during troubled markets. Here’s a beauty from yesterday in the WSJ, “Pension Strategy Left Funds Vulnerable to Rate Increases.” Apparently, pension managers were using leverage and collateral to hedge against rate increases, but when the collateral loses value, margin calls come a-knockin’. And like clockwork, when […]
Get Off the Investment Roller Coaster: Have a Plan
You know emotions can wreak havoc on investors. Feeling good or bad about investments shouldn’t be a month-to-month roller coaster. But in my conversations with you, I know you’re reading that the so-called experts are calling for more doom and gloom. They’ve been making this call for years now. Even a broken clock is right—you […]
Prices Are Like Adult Kids: You Don’t Have Much Control Over Them
Prices. They’re like adult kids. We don’t have much control over ‘em. What do we do with them? I’ll tell you. Tough love hurts. Spend less, save more. Become an independent inflation fighter. Because inflation means different things to different people. A new iPhone isn’t as important to me as, say, it is to someone […]
Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season
“Do you see the waves crashing over that rock dead ahead?” my dad said loud enough for me to hear over the 25-knot winds and 7-foot waves crashing over our bow. “Yes, got it,” I said. “We’re good on this heading. We can round that red can up about a quarter mile ahead.” “It’s at […]
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