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If you have more than $40,000 under the care of a financial advisor, you may be paying that person more than you pay your primary care physician. Think about that for a moment. Your physical health versus your financial health. Does managing your money require more training? Is a mistake more costly? Which is more complicated and more critical? Your portfolio value or your cholesterol? Your asset ... Read More
Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past. But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly... Read More