Author: Colby Davis
When Will Social Security Go Bust?
Earlier this month, the Social Security Administration released its annual Trustees Reports on the financial condition of the program. This year’s report contained some hugely...
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Free Trade and the Golden Rule of Capitalism
People often ask me why the market, or some segment of it, has been acting the way it has been recently. My go-to response is...
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The Steamroller: Reflections from My First Black Swan
Investing is a numbers game. With a well diversified portfolio, you make a lot of little bets and on any given day some of them...
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Testosterone is not an Investment Performance Enhancer
Finance, especially investment management, has traditionally been a male-dominated industry, often noted for its swashbuckling machismo, aggressive competitiveness, and otherwise male-high-school-jock-stereotype nature as in popular...
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Everything Keeps Getting Better: 2018 Edition
Do you ever get the feeling that the only news they report is bad news? Well if you’ve ever wondered why that is, there is...
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Where’d All the Risk Go?
America is more divided now than ever, a hostile foreign power is openly threatening us with nuclear weapons, and we don’t even know what next...
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Bitcoin; and other Fun Ways of Setting Your Money on Fire
Alright, bring on the hate mail! As I promised in my last post, today I give you more than you ever wanted to know on...
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3 Investments to Avoid in an Expensive Market
You’ve probably heard it, maybe you’re worried about it: stocks are expensive, bonds are expensive, real estate is expensive, it seems like just about everywhere...
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3 Investments to Consider for an Expensive Market
Here’s a market concern we’ve been hearing from investors more and more lately: There aren’t any good investment opportunities right now. Stocks are expensive, bonds...
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Profiting from the Recklessness of Others
A couple months ago, I wrote about the dangers of levered ETFs, showing how these products designed to juice investor’s returns end up eroding capital...
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