The Stock Investment Strategy Tester is an exciting new tool! We are suffering an economic crisis today (this article was posted in March 2009) because millions of middle-class investors […]
Return Predictor
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About Our Unique Investment Return Calculator
Question #1 on the new investment return calculator — What does the Return Predictor do? The Return Predictor tells you what sort of long-term return you can realistically […]
Retire Different!
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Getting Fired — Something Dies and Something Is Born
Getting fired means that your record will never again be clean. You got fired, you’re a loser. That’s what it means. That’s not actually so, of course. But […]
Economics -- New and Improved!
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What Is a Bear Market and What Is a Bull Market?
Answer #1 to the Question What Is a Bear Market and What Is a Bull Market? — They Are NOT Short-Term Ups and Downs in Stock Prices Much […]
The Turned-On Budget
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Eight Ways to Budget for Eight Budgeting Personalities
The First of the Eight Ways to Budget — The No-Budget Budget Most people who believe that they entirely lack the budgeting gene stick to an informal sort […]
Retire Different!
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Unwritten Rules of Wage Slavery
Wage Slavery Rule #1 — Vacations Are Suspect. We earn our vacations. Some of us, though, are made to feel that we need to ask “pretty please?” before […]
The New Buy-and-Hold
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The Case Against Valuation-Informed Indexing
The problem with the conventional indexing approach (developed by Vanguard Founder John Bogle) is that it does not call for adjustments in the investor’s stock allocation at times […]
Start Me Up
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What Is Valuation-Informed Indexing?
Valuation-Informed Indexing is the approach to investing that I developed as a result of my mid-1990s research into what the historical stock-return data says about how to invest […]
The Book I Read
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A Cheat Sheet for Ed Easterling’s Unexpected Returns
A Cheat Sheet for Ed Easterling’s Unexpected Returns –Insight #1: The Intermediate Term is the Great Unknown for Most Investors There was a time when many investors focused […]
The Book I Read
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The Myth of the Rational Market — A Fine Book Missing a Fine Conclusion
The Myth of the Rational Market, by Juston Fox, is an important book. It does a fine job of explaining the analytical mistakes made by efficient market proponents […]