YTD Performance

I posted the following graphic in the Charts of Interest. However, I feel it deserves a more expanded examination. In the years following the GFC the domestic market has lagged markedly behind other world markets. The shock of the GFC has had a profound impact upon the psyche of investors – that combined with a rampant…

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Your Brain Is Primed To Reach False Conclusions

Helena Matute, a psychologist at Deusto University in Bilbao, Spain, and her colleagues enlisted 147 college students to take part in a computer-based task in which they each played a doctor who specializes in a fictitious rare disease and assessed whether new medications could cure it. In phase one of the study, the student volunteers…

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Fake Hedge Fund Manager Fakes Death Using Fake Assistant

He never made real investments with funds, instead using the money for personal use, authorities said. To keep his companies going, he issued false earnings statements. “By pretending to be a successful hedge-fund manager, Malik conned investors into bankrolling his lavish lifestyle,” Andrew M. Calamari, director of the SEC’s New York Regional Office, said at…

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