Three of the financial minds who warned of the current credit crisis — Banc of America Securities-Merrill Lynch’s Richard Bernstein, PIMCO’s Paul McCulley, and author and former Wall Streeter Richard…
Category: Historical Lessons
What to Expect from Here
How quickly will stocks rebound when the current bear market ends (if it hasn’t already done so)? The New York Times’ Paul Lim offers some interesting data on that subject…
Tobin's Q Ratio: "Modestly" Bullish Sign
In the latest issue of Equities and Tobin’s Q, John Mihaljevic (CFA and managing editor of The Manual of Ideas blog) explains that the “Q” ratio made famous by Nobel…
Good Quant, Bad Quant
MarketWatch’s Paul Farrell recently offered up a scathing critique of “quants”, complete with this eye-catching subhead: “By Predicting Your Behavior, Quants Control Your Mind, Money, the Markets”. Since I run…
Tilson & Heins: How You Can Be a Stock "Lion" Like Templeton
Barry Ritholtz isn’t the only successful manager saying investors should be making “watch lists”. In their latest “Discovering Value” column for Kiplinger’s, Whitney Tilson and John Heins say that maintaining…
Buffett Bonanza: Government vs. Fear, Bank Prognosis, and Why You Should Still 'Buy American'
Warren Buffett spent three hours on CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning discussing the economy and stock market from all angles. Buffett says the economy will turn around, but that it…
O'Shaughnessy in Buying Mode; Sees S&P 900 this Year
James O’Shaughnessy, the fund manager whose study of four-plus decades of stock market returns may be the most extensive ever done, is seeing good times ahead for U.S. stocks. In…
Shiller: It's The Psychology, Stupid
Don’t underestimate the impact psychology has on the stock market and economy — that’s the message Yale economist and housing crisis predictor Robert Shiller recently gave during a lecture at…
Even Buffett Makes Mistakes -- and You Can Learn from Them
In his latest Wall Street Journal column, James B. Stewart examines some of the mistakes Warren Buffett acknowledged making in Berkshire Hathaway’s 2009 letter to shareholders, and explains what average…
Study: Index Funds Top Mutual & Hedge Funds
Index funds may sound boring, but in his latest New York Times column, Mark Hulbert offers some data that indicates index funds may, in the end, actually yield higher net…