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Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession – anything that leads to low inflation and the protection of the real value of their loans.

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Imperceptibly, the developed world’s manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.
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Develop Economy Finance Manufacturing World
Damn inflation, full speed ahead,’ Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor should believe him and invest accordingly.
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Action Believe Inventor Thinking
Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.
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Equity Expenses Return
Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market.
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Bears Ridiculous Yield
Finding the best person or the best organization to invest your money is one of the most important financial decisions you’ll ever make.
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Decision Important Organization
Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for “machines” are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs.
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Jobs Political Writing
Even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.
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Country Currency Even Out Print
Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That’s where they want to go.
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Order Safety Trying
When you’re underperforming the index, you go home at night and cry in your beer. It’s not fun, but who said this business should be fun. We’re too well paid to hang our heads and say boo hoo.
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Beer Fun Home
If companies don’t know that they can run out of money, they won’t be thinking of ways not to run out of money.
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Running Thinking Way
You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.
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Butterflies Butterfly Chasing Rose
We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.
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Austerity Long Many
Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.
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Ideas Oblivion Portfolios
The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, … you need to make big bets when the odds are in your favor — not big enough to ruin you, but big enough to make a difference.
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Differences Moving Odds
Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.
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Analysis Aspect Judging
Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren’t enough of those jobs.
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Enough Jobs Myth People

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