July 12, 2019 By Steve Blumenthal “[I]f you could say well give me one rule to follow as an investor, just one, it would be, do the things that are unpopular. Everything else being equal, the things that are popular are overpriced the things that are unpopular are underpriced.” - Howard [...]Read More >
On My Radar: The Dalio-Mauldin Debate on Capitalism - 06-28-2019
June 28, 2019 By Steve Blumenthal “You should invest more when the tickets in the bowl are in your favor. You should invest less when they are against your favor and what determines the mix of the tickets in the bowl largely where we stand in the cycle.” - Howard Marks Oaktree Capital and [...]Read More >
On My Radar: Mauldin Strategic Investment Conference 2019 (Part VI: Marks-Yusko Discussion) - 06-21-2019
June 21, 2019 By Steve Blumenthal “A lot of investors feel it isn’t hard, they just don’t know how. Because the more you think this is easy, the more you persuade yourself that you can take the heat. And then, the sooner the oven gets hot, the more shocked you are and the worse you get burned. [...]Read More >
On My Radar: Mauldin Strategic Investment Conference 2019 (Part V: Investing in the Age Reversal Revolution) - 06-14-2019
June 14, 2019 By Steve Blumenthal “As for the markets, here’s the truth. The global ex-USA stock market index this cycle failed – failed! – to make a new high. It came close but never managed to take out the prior cycle high in 2007. And it is still down 15% from this cycle’s peak, even with the [...]Read More >
On My Radar: Mauldin Strategic Investment Conference 2019 (Part IV – Felix Zulauf) - 06-7-2019
June 7, 2019 By Steve Blumenthal “Optimizing learning and instruction often requires going against one’s intuitions, deviating from standard instructional practices, and managing one’s own learning activities in new ways.” - Dr. Bjork #TOVOInstitute #Intelligent #Training The greatest bull [...]Read More >
On My Radar: Mauldin Strategic Investment Conference 2019 (Part III – William R. White) - 05-31-2019
May 31, 2019 By Steve Blumenthal “With the yield curve (3-month Treasury Bill vs. 10-year Treasury Note) now inverted on a more sustained basis, one can expect more downward pressure on equities, more volatility and more credit spread widening.” – David Rosenberg, Chief Economist & [...]Read More >
On My Radar: Mauldin Strategic Investment Conference 2019 (Part II – David Rosenberg) - 05-24-2019
May 24, 2019 By Steve Blumenthal “What we know about Fed tightening cycles is that they always expose and then expunge the bubble they created during the previous period of monetary expansion. I can take you back a century and show it to you. It’s like Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein… build up the [...]Read More >
On My Radar: Mauldin Strategic Investment Conference 2019 (Part I – Dr. Lacy Hunt) - 05-17-2019
May 17, 2019 By Steve Blumenthal “The only outcomes are an orderly restructure or unorderly restructure [of the debts].” - William White Former Chief Economist of the Bank for International Settlements The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is known as the central banker’s banker. [...]Read More >
On My Radar: Valuation Data, Coming Returns, Recession Charts and Mauldin SIC - 05-10-2019
May 10, 2019 By Steve Blumenthal "Corrections happen during growth-rate cycle slowdowns, they don't require a recession." - Lakshman Achuthan, Economic Cycle Research Institute On Sunday afternoon, I fly to Dallas to attend the 16th annual Mauldin Economics Strategic Investment Conference (SIC). [...]Read More >
On My Radar: Parkinson’s, Stock Buybacks and the Hong Kong Short - 05-3-2019
May 3, 2019 By Steve Blumenthal “Forty decades of a single market environment tends to create bad investing habits. U.S. interest rates have steadily fallen since 1981. Investors have consistently benefited from using long-term bonds and taking interest rate risk.” – @movement_cap I remember [...]Read More >
On My Radar: Investors are Willing to do Almost Everything; HY Price Trend Holds the Key - 04-26-2019
April 26, 2019 By Steve Blumenthal “As an investor, you make the most money when you do things that other people aren’t willing to do, like taking risks others shun. Attractive investment opportunities arise when you spot some security or some part of the market being ignored and you come to the [...]Read More >
On My Radar: Peace is Its Own Reward - 04-19-2019
April 19, 2019 By Steve Blumenthal “Peace is its own reward.” - Mahatma Gandhi This week’s post is holiday-weekend short. Grab that coffee and find your favorite chair. You’ll find a simple chart that shows the history of cyclical bull and bear markets (with returns before and after inflation). [...]Read More >
On My Radar: Delicate Moment - 04-12-2019
April 12, 2019 By Steve Blumenthal "The economy is a collection of emotions." - Kenneth Langone Speaking to first-year NYU medical students, Kenneth G. Langone and his wife, Elaine, stepped to the podium. Their announcement shook the room. “From this point on, NYU Medical School is tuition-free [...]Read More >
On My Radar: Recession Obsession and Why It Matters - 04-5-2019
April 5, 2019 By Steve Blumenthal “Meanwhile, over the past 10 years, low interest rates meant that we kept bringing tomorrow’s growth forward to today. Unfortunately, we may now have run out of tomorrow’s growth, and are about to start to regret eating today’s growth yesterday.” – [...]Read More >
On My Radar: This Time is Different… Is it? The High Yield Bond Market Holds the Key - 03-29-2019
March 29, 2019 By Steve Blumenthal "There's a lot of reasons to think that it has been a recession predictor for reasons in the past that kind of don't apply today." – John Williams, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Is it different this time? Williams is saying yes. The bond [...]Read More >
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