Was yesterday’s stock market rally based on fundamentals or emotions? Come on, bro, you know better. But so what? Emotions (we call them “sentiment” or “psychology” on The Street) have as much to do with driving returns as actual earnings or interest rates do. That’s where the “P” in PE ratio comes from, after all…
January 2013
Hot Links: Suiting Up
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Two-Word Investment Outlooks
Yeah, I said it.
LOLBonds
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…but what do the economists think?
re: the Fiscal Cliff Mini-Deal, the stock market’s vote is in – they like it. I should qualify that – they like the fact that there is any deal in place, even if just a mini one. Besides, when is a mini anything ever a bad thing, anyway? Mini-skirt = good, Mini-M&M’s = good, Mini-iPad…
this year’s resolution
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The Good News (or the predictability of wealthy white people)
Going forward, use this heuristic as your map
Hot Links: Long Live the Cliff
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Les Fiscal Miserables
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Hot Links: Odds and Ends
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