For most investors, 2022 was not a good year. Seemingly, week after week, the stock market was down.1 And to make matters worse, we endured the worst bond market in about 50 years. Meanwhile, the value of people’s portfolios was also being eroded by record inflation. These conditions had many investors wondering if there was …
There’s an old business school joke about an entrepreneur who prices his widgets at half the cost of making them. “It’s true I’m losing money on every sale,” he explains, “But I’ll make up for it in volume.” Over the past decade this has seemingly been the business model of a host of tech-enabled companies. …
It’s always fun to look through an old newspaper, especially if it was printed more than 50 years ago. On the front page under bold headlines you can read about the biggest concerns of that day. It’s interesting to note how many urgent problems of that era are even thought about today. But even more …
Many people have the misconception that the primary goal of investing is to make as much money as you can as fast as you can. Unfortunately, you can’t just order up outsized returns like a delivery pizza. You have to pay for your chance at them with concentrated risk. The bigger the potential payout, the …
In Homer’s Odyssey, the hero Odysseus is trying to get back home with his ship intact. At one point in their journey, he and his crewmen must pass near the rocks of the sirens. These are creatures with the bodies of birds and heads of women who sing magically enticing songs that cause men on passing …
It seems like all the pharmaceutical ads on TV (or wherever you stream your content) follow the same formula. They say a few words about an illness or condition, then they show ordinary people enjoying the kinds of wonderful activities that make us all jealous on social media: Driving a vintage convertible along the coast, …
Knowing What to Do Makes Less Room for Worry One of the clever dramatic devices you’ll find in Shakespeare is the letterdelivered-on-stage. As the recipient reads it aloud, the audience experiences all the emotions of the scene it’s describing just as if they had seen it happen. Of course, this is a useful way to …
QUARTERLY CLIENT LETTER – 2023 Q3 – PROVIDED BY MARK K. LUND, UTAH FINANCIAL ADVISOR Read More
According to the American Heritage Idioms Dictionary, William Camden was the first to record the saying, “The early bird gets the worm.” He included it in his 1605 edition of English proverbs.1 Its straightforward meaning is that the person who arrives or acts first is more likely to get what he wants. It’s been a …
In 1992 American political scientist Francis Fukuyama published The End of History and the Last Man. This highly regarded book declared that global politics had reached its final stage. Liberal (in the classical sense) democracy would continue to spread until it was the standard form of government for the nations of the world.1 At the …
Recent headlines have investors concerned about what may happen to their portfolios if the U.S. government cannot reach an agreement to increase the debt ceiling/limit, thereby risking default: The reality is that headlines like these are nothing new. In the historic global market growth of wealth graphic below, we highlighted every major “impending disaster” as …
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