by Robert Bartley | Aug 6, 2019 | Financial Literacy, Investing, Markets, Quarterly Update, Robert Bartley
July 2019 Market Value Update Here’s our July Market Value Update. Looking at daily market news will drive you crazy. Instead, let’s take the long view of the current market and its value – and then ask how it affects your portfolio and what (if...
by Robert Bartley | Jul 22, 2019 | Bonds, Investing, Markets, Robert Bartley
Finding Agreement with Ray Dalio’s Paradigm Shift The billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio has been speaking out on the current state of economic affairs. His recent article Paradigm Shift argues that markets are poised to change, big time. I guess we are in good...
by Robert Bartley | Jul 11, 2019 | Bonds, Investing, Markets, Robert Bartley
How do you take advantage when markets are out of whack? “Out of whack” is an idiom defined by freedictionary.com as Not or no longer working or functioning properly or In a disordered or chaotic state. How do we know markets are out of whack? (Or, as my grandmother...
by Robert Bartley | Jun 13, 2019 | Financial Literacy, Investing, Markets, Quarterly Update, Robert Bartley
by Robert Bartley May 2019 Market Value Update Daily market value updates are like financial pornography – they’ll drive you crazy, so turn it off!!! Let’s see what the market value looks like for May, then take the long view of the stock market and its...
by Robert Bartley | Feb 14, 2019 | Investing, Markets, Robert Bartley
by Robert Bartley FEBRUARY 2019 MARKET VALUE UPDATE The daily market news is BS that will drive you crazy; turn it off!! Let’s take the long view of stock market valuation–and then ask the important questions, like how it affects your portfolio and what, if...
by Robert Bartley | Jun 25, 2018 | Financial Planning, Investing, Robert Bartley
A recent Northwestern Medicine and University of Michigan study, chronicled in an article in the Journal of American Medical Association and posted on Medical Xpress, noted that people have a 50 percent higher risk of death if they suffer a significant financial loss....