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You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

Bill Gross

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
In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well.
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Doors Icons might Question
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
Why is it possible to rescue S&L buccaneers in the early ’90s and provide guidance to levered Wall Street investment bankers during the 1998 long-term capital management crisis, yet throw 2 million homeowners to the wolves in 2007?
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Bankers Capital Long Management Wall
Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.
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Brilliant Fidelity Fund Mutual
Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market.
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Bears Ridiculous Yield
Pay per click was just the beginning. The real evolution is pay per action.
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Action Click Pay Real
I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?
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Excellence Track Years
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
Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.
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Debt GDP Growth Slow
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
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
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
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
With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates have a magnified effect. a small movement can tip the boat.
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Debt Government Movement
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

You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

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