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Benjamin Graham

Checking In With Mr. Market

By |2015-01-04T18:08:27-05:00January 4th, 2015|Bonds, Commodities, Currencies, Markets, Stocks|

Mr. Market is the fictional business partner Benjamin Graham invented in his classic value investing book, The Intelligent Investor. As Mr. Graham describes him, Mr. Market is the business partner of the investor, offering on a daily basis to buy your share in the business or alternatively to sell you his share. There are times when he is wildly optimistic [...]

The Consensus Takes A Beating

By |2012-07-01T16:51:07-04:00July 1st, 2012|Economy, Markets|

The consensus opinion going into last week was that Obamacare  the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would be struck down by the Supreme Court in a partisan decision and that the EU summit would end with no substantive agreement on how to address the banking crisis in Europe. As it turns out, both of these consensus positions appear to [...]

Why is investing so difficult?

By |2012-02-04T14:50:28-05:00February 4th, 2012|Markets|

Joseph Gomez, Sr. Investment Advisor Why am I more optimistic about the future of the stock market? I can't help it when I read that mutual fund outflows last year topped $130 billion, or 3 times more than in 2010. Despite the 20% or so rally in the S&P 500 since early October, there were outflows of $28.8 billion in December 2011 [...]

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