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Tony Sagami On
April 6, 201807:55 AM EasternHow did I get started in this business? As a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch in the 1980s. In retrospect, I cringe at how naive and dumb I was
back then.
But I somehow managed not to destroy...
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Mike Larson On
April 4, 201807:55 AM EasternWhen the market starts dropping, don’t just yell about it. SELL!
I’m not trying to be glib here. I’m being dead serious. Selling has become a lost art form for all too many investors thanks to...
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Mike Larson On
April 2, 201807:55 AM EasternThe “all-is-well” crowd is out in full force.
They say that the big rout we’ve seen in tech stocks is still just a garden-variety correction.
They insist nothing has changed “fundamentally.”
...
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Tony Sagami On
March 30, 201807:55 AM EasternOne-in-four Americans observe Lent. Most who do, give up something, like a favorite food or beverage.
One Good Friday many, many years ago when I was a young and mischievous boy, I suggested to...
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Mike Larson On
March 28, 201807:55 AM EasternYou can sense it, can’t you? That SOMETHING is different about the stock market these days?
The “Straight Up and to the Right” moves everyone got used to in late 2016 and 2017 are giving way to...
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Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On
March 26, 201807:55 AM EasternIn 2006, Mike Larson and I repeatedly warned that the U.S. housing market was going to collapse; and one year later, it did.
In late November, 2007, we warned that Bear Stearns was going to...
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Tony Sagami On
March 23, 201807:55 AM EasternSure, 2017 was a good year for the stock market, but it was a really amazing year for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The S&P 500 rose 21.4%. Bitcoin soared 1,403%.
Yup, 64 times better than...
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Mike Larson On
March 21, 201807:55 AM EasternJust over a decade ago, one of the first major dominoes in the mortgage crisis toppled. The venerable Wall Street brokerage firm Bear Stearns collapsed, forcing the government and Federal Reserve...
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Mike Larson On
March 19, 201807:55 AM EasternIt’s been a while since our children were young enough to enjoy the playground. But as parents, we remember how much joy they got hanging from the monkey bars, swinging on the swings, and slipping...
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Tony Sagami On
March 16, 201807:55 AM EasternI lived in Texas for eight wonderful years and as many of my friends there repeatedly told me, “EVERYTHING is big in Texas!”
It’s true: Texans do everything in a big way. But the same is true —...
