Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market.
BILL GROSSIn 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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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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Whenever I read the newspaper, I say to myself, ‘At least my wife loves me.’
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You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.
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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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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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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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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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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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When the tide goes out, you get to see who’s swimming naked. PIMCO has had its bathing suit on for a long time
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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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Pay per click was just the beginning. The real evolution is pay per action.
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Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for “machines” are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs.
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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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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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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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