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From a brand new memo by Howard Marks (Oaktree) – his takeaways from the latest boom/bust on everyone’s radar and how we’ve reacted to it: In part the emotional reaction to negative developments is the product of surprise and disillusionment. Part of this may stem from investors’ inability to understand the “fault lines” that run…

They said the Fed couldn’t taper without massive market dislocations. They said the Fed was “trapped” and “backed into the corner” and “behind the curve” or that there no longer was a curve anyway – just endless helpings of stimulus and no benefit accruing to the economy whatsoever. In the meantime, the FOMC has now removed…

It’s really wonderful to see President Barack Obama normalizing relations between Cuba and the United States after fifty years of Soviet-instigated animosity that is totally irrelevant in today’s day and age. I believe it will be great for the Cuban people and their stateside family members, as well as for businesses in Florida and intrepid business…

“To me, success for individual investors means they’re able to tie their current assets to their future liabilities in such a way that they can do all the things they want to do in retirement and beyond. It’s not a dollar figure or an asset allocation. It’s that an investor can spend the money on…

Nick Murray says “The ability to distinguish between volatility and loss is the first casualty of a bear market.” I turned to one of my favorite passages of his masterpiece Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth this morning as turmoil from overseas and the commodity markets made its way through the headlines. Nick relays a great anecdote…

I’m not going to spend a lot of time on this Teen Trader story where a high school junior from Queens, New York conned a bunch of journalists into believing he’d made $72 million in profits speculating in the stock market on his lunch hour. Anyone who’s spent even a few years in the market…

The chart above comes from Matt Phillips at Quartz and is a good reminder of why you shouldn’t invest in stupid sh*t. Obviously any asset can decline in price – blue chip stocks, your house, etc – nothing is immune. But don’t go out looking for additional trouble when the world is perfectly capable of…