Les and Simon are a couple of “Stock Capitalists” that scour thru literally hundreds of stock market related sites, newsletters, e-mails, blogs, etc… and “siphon” out great ideas, quotes, recommendations, and stock market related information. They have been trading the stock market for more than 20 years and offer some of their insight and best articles of interest.
Learning from the past mistakes of man can really help us to do things better the next time around. Sometimes looking at the tragedies of the past can help us today.
One of the worst economic disasters was the 1929 stock market crash.
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Special thanks to Drew for sending me this link. Really makes you think!
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“In many ways, Japans long deflation has been different from the United States in the 1930s. There have been no breadlines – or 25% unemployment.
Yet an 82% decline in the market over two decades is devastating even to investors with the longest time horizons. Bear in mind, this example excludes dividends. But still, this is [...]
We do not give investment advice and our comments are an expression of opinion only and should not be construed in any manner whatsoever as recommendations to enter into a market position either stock , option, futures contract, bonds, …
Dent is the author of the eminent The Next Great Bubble Boom (2004) The Roaring 2000s Investor (1999) The Roaring 2000s (1998) The Great Jobs
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Ahead (1995) The Great Boom Ahead (1993) Our Power to Predict (1989). Dent writes an economic newssheet that revues the economy in the US and around the world, [...]
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“Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt,” said Rogers, who is now a private investor.
“What is outrageous economically and is outrageous morally is that normally in times like this, people who are competent and who saw it coming and who kept their powder dry go [...]
What the Greenspan Fed had accomplished was to put off a natural cyclical correction and transmogrify an entire economy into a monstrous economic bubble. A bubble in stock prices may do little real economic damage.
Global stocks fall sharply on recession fears, Dow Jones plummets nearly 8% (0); Federal Reserve Offers Additional Support to Help Stimulate Economy (1); Market Meltdown : Stocks Seek Financial Rescue from G7, Dow Jones Industrial …
Something like $6 trillion of stock market value has disappeared so far.” “Stabilization of the financial markets is a critical first step,” Ben Bernanke suggested yesterday, “but even if they stabilize as we hope they will, …
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