The Big Picture for the Week of November 22, 2009
Something to ponder.This came up in various places earlier on during this event but is worth thinking about again.Simple question; historically when do the biggest bounces in stock prices occur?While I have opinions as to what will happen the bigger th...
ETF Wednesday
A few bits of ETF news to chime in on.First is an interesting filing from EG Shares (reported by IndexUniverse) for seven funds. They are India Infrastructure Index Fund, China Infrastructure Index Fund, Brazil Infrastructure Index Fund, India Mid Cap ...
The Big Picture for the Week of October 11, 2009
Very short post this morning, we're out the door for a hike ahead of a trip up to the Grand Canyon coming next week.As a follow up to my Five Best Places To Retire post from a few weeks ago that focused on a "tax arbitrage" the high temperature in Spea...
Dennis Gartman Has Been To Walker?
Well probably not but the following quote in the FT makes me wonder;We’ve been disdainful of the Gold Bugs during our entire career, seeing most of them as gun-toting, canned-food hoarding, doomsday-awaiting crotchety old geezers with little good to ...
The Five Best Places To Retire!
Every type of personal finance publication goes to this well several times year so why not a blog? This post was motivated by an article on Yahoo Finance about which states are tax friendly. According to the article seven states have no income tax and ...
You Lost Me At Hello
Yesterday Yahoo Finance ran this article from BusinessWeek about a "rule" for assessing where your savings compares to where it should ideally be. Meaning if you are 50 years old you should have X. X is not a number but a multiple of your salary. The b...
Goings On In Oregon
"And this ring is where this great old tree survived a forest fire Billy" with apologies to Gary Larsen.A Bank of America branch in a double wide trailer? Really?We are big coffee people and we got a helluva mocha in the town of Hood River.
