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Your Investment Expectations Could Be a Trap
September 28, 2021 Big Picture. Big Profits., Investing, Trading Strategies
If you extend the stock market’s average return back 20 years, for example, it falls to 9.8%. That’s consistent with the long-term average over the last 200 years. To anyone whose stock trading experience spans the 12 years since the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), that may seem disappointingly low. But those 12 years are exceptional. Only one of them produced a negative return — 2018. Even then, the Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell-induced crash in the fourth quarter of that year immediately reversed in 2019, when the market rocketed 31.5%.Over the last two centuries, on the other hand, one out of every four years produces a negative return. That raises an important question for all investors. On what are your expectations for the next decade based? Could they be leading you into a trap? Geothermal Is So Hot, Uncle Sam’s Crypto Grab Bag & EMF Is Unbelievable
September 24, 2021 Great Stuff
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September 21, 2021 Great Stuff
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September 20, 2021 Big Picture. Big Profits., U.S. Economy
I’ve emphasized the centrality of U.S. government policy to your investments for 18 months.
Whether it’s the Federal Reserve, stimulus payments, infrastructure bills or the fight against COVID, what the public sector does has had an outsized influence on stock prices.
In theory anyway, the people making those decisions are accountable to us as citizens, taxpayers and voters.
But the last few weeks show that decision-makers who aren’t accountable to anyone can have a far greater impact. Biden’s Solar Power Plan Is Good for the Economy
September 16, 2021 Technology, Winning Investor Daily
Biden’s infrastructure plan envisions a future where solar power generates up to 45% of the U.S. electricity supply by 2050.