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• Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.
• Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks,…
• Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.
• Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling…
• TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an…
• The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years.
• Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
• To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks…
• Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.
• Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible…
• Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
• The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.

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