It’s April 22, 2025. The S&P 500 has had a wild ride of late. It’s down about 11% year-to-date, but that doesn’t begin to tell the story. It’s been a mad house. Given the pain we’ve been through, it seems time to ask the big question “Is now the time to buy?” Headlines This has […]
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Everything is down. We had a brief reprise on Wednesday April 9 when some of the higher tariffs were rolled back to 10%, but today Thursday April 10, we’re down again. I look at my holdings. My mutual funds are down, my stocks are down, my bond funds are down, especially long-duration treasuries. The mid-cap
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As an investor, it’s important to understand who is running the companies in which we invest and to learn how they make decisions. I’ve probably lost 90% of the readers at this point, but I’ll continue for the remaining reader or 2, but also for myself because I find that by writing this, it helps
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There is no joy in Mudville…Mighty Casey isn’t the only one who has struck out today. We’re all getting sent back to the dugout. It’s a bad day on top of a volatile year to date. Zoom Out Here’s where I tell you it’s not so bad. On the chart below of the S&P 500
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I’ve written a bit about company annual reports. What are they? Each year, every public company puts together a formal report to shareholders. If we own shares, that’s us. The managers that run the company are letting us (the owners) know how the company performed and what the outlook is for the coming year. Can
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I’ve been thinking a lot about my post on taking social security at 62. You can read the post here. To give you the Reader’s Digest version, I performed some analysis and determined that I’d likely be better off taking a lower social security payment at 62 and investing all of it in a low-cost
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My last few posts have been about the abrupt crash in the stock markets and how to hang tough during times of volatility. That’s a bit of a downer, so today we’re going to talk about getting our shopping list in order. In this case we’re not talking about milk, bread, and alternatives for the
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Yeah! If you’ve read my posts, you know that I’ve frequently recommended investing in a nice low-cost S&P 500 fund. Why is this? Equities Equity means ownership. Equity investments are ownership shares of businesses. And while not all businesses succeed, a basket of equities like the S&P 500 can be a great investment. I wrote
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Many of us, myself included, believe that we can grow our wealth by buying shares of publicly traded companies. There are thousands of companies that are traded on US and international exchanges, all of which are available to us as investors. So how do we choose? I’ve written a bit about analyzing companies and creating
I recently used T. Rowe Price (ticker: TROW) as an example of a stock that makes me money while I sleep. I noted that its price appreciation wasn’t great over the past 10 years, but that it paid me steady income. Here’s the 10 year chart comparing TROW to the S&P 500. That Stinks That
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