Monthly August, 2012
A Quote That is as Valid Today as Ever – by Abraham Lincoln Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing Many investors have seen their portfolios punished in the last year. The big Mutual Funds tell you that you should measure your returns against the norm, or against the...
In an interview with Small Cap Power earlier this year, the interviewer asked whether it was was an opportune time to buy gold. At that time the US Congress was in a stalemate over raising the debt limit. There were daily increasing fears about debt defaults in Europe. China was entering a slowdown and the...
The Age of Instant Communication A feature of the revolutionary change in communications that has transformed society, is the almost instant universal awareness of every event, or concept. A recent discussion is a relatively new concept of governments printing a massive sum of money and depositing a proportionate amount of it in every citizen’s bank...
Most investors are looking for the stock or investment that will show a large increase in value. That is perfectly reasonable, as long as those attempts are viewed in context of an investor’s entire portfolio. A reasonable portion, such as 10% of a portfolio, can usually be regarded as ‘risk’ capital. The essence of making...
An Overview of the Markets Investors today feel that they have been burnt as their stock portfolios have performed poorly. Each day they are bombarded with negative news from Syria where fighting continues, from Europe where the ever increasing debt crisis never seems to reach resolution, from Japan where debt levels continue to rise as...