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• Podcast #184 — Market Timing Is the Mechanism by Which Market Efficiency Is Attained

  
  A Rich Life — Authority: 122
  I’ve posted Podcast #184 to the “RobCasts” section of the site. It’s called Market Timing Is the Mechanism by Which Market Efficiency Is Attained. The conventional investing wisdom is that the market is efficient, that the price set by the market is the proper price. But investors are often urged by those ...
  18 hours ago

• Carl Richards Brings Up the Question That May Not Be Asked

  
  A Rich Life — Authority: 122
  Carl Richards at the fine Behavior Gap blog recently brought up The Question That May Not Be Asked: Is Passive Investing a bad idea? Juicy Excerpt: In most of these discussions, many of the arguments that people make seemed to be informed by a  fundamental belief  in the efficient market hypothesis or modern ...
  6 days ago

• Podcast #181 — Predictably Irrational

  
  A Rich Life — Authority: 122
  I’ve posted Podcast #181 to the “RobCasts” section of the site. It’s called Predictably Irrational. The Passives have a hard time understanding how Rationals can argue both that the market is irrational and that long-term returns can be effectively predicted. They raise a good question. Related posts: ...
  1 week ago

• What is a Bond and How to invest in bonds online?

  
  Learn Trading & Investing — Authority: 100
  Many people like you and me have always been astonished by the bond market and have always wondered what exactly a bond is. More importantly they have always been amazed as to how to do investing in bonds online. Well, in simpler terms bonds is just a debt instrument or it can also be defined as a contract to repay ...
  1 week ago

• Podcast #180 — Volatility Is Evil

  
  A Rich Life — Authority: 122
  I’ve added Podcast #180 to the “RobCasts” section of the site. It’s called Volatility Is Evil. Imagine no volatility in stock prices. I wonder if you can. No reason for bull or bear markets, Safe withdrawal rates you can understand. Imagine all middle-class investors Retiring five years earlier. You ...
  2 weeks ago

• “Most Real People Seem to Be Losing Faith”

  
  A Rich Life — Authority: 122
  Carl Richards offers that encouraging word in a blog entry entitled “What If Markets Aren’t Free.” Juicy Excerpt: If traditional buy and hold investing is a bet on the concept of free market capitalism, what if the current version is  not quite as free  as the model assumed it would be? I blame the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why Invest?

  
  Rich Credit Debt Loan — Authority: 559
  Do you have some money socked away, or are you planning to sock some money away for the purpose of investing? Are you wondering why investing would be a smart idea and how you can best benefit from the act of investing? Simply put, you are going to want to invest so that you can create and build wealth. Investing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Buy-and-Hold Investing Doesn’t Work — These Links Prove It!

  
  A Rich Life — Authority: 122
  I’ve posted an article to the “Valuation-Informed Indexing” section of the site entitled Buy-and-Hold Investing Doesn’t Work — These Links Prove It! Juicy Excerpt #1: Fortunately, the 2008 stock crash and the economic crisis that it brought on has caused a weakening in the taboo on reporting of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• “Financial Journalists Do Not Think About the Logic of the Models But Take Them on Faith”

  
  A Rich Life — Authority: 122
  Set forth below is a Guest Blog Entry by Chuck Yanikoski, editor of the Integrative Advisor and Executive Director of the Association of Integrative Financial and Life Planning. These words were taken from an e-mail that Chuck sent me during a discussion of an article that I wrote for his publication: I am actually ...
  3 weeks ago

• Podcast #176 — Volatility Is Optional

  
  A Rich Life — Authority: 122
  I’ve posted Podcast #176 to the “RobCasts” section of the site. It’s called Volatility Is Optional. A rational market prices in the effect of an eventual economic recovery. Thus, economic bad times need not cause a drop in stock price. Price drops are caused solely by our negative emotional reaction to bad ...
  3 weeks ago

• The True Cause of the Current Financial Crisis Is Buy-and-Hold Investing

  
  A Rich Life — Authority: 122
  I recently posted an article to the “Valuation-Informed Indexing” section of the site entitled  The True Cause of the Current Financial Crisis Is Buy-and-Hold Investing. Juicy Excerpt #1:  We feel a great short-term temptation to set prices insanely high. But we ultimately are governed by the long-term ...
  3 weeks ago

• Podcast #175 — As Your Wealth Grows, Increase Your Stock Allocation

  
  A Rich Life — Authority: 122
  I’ve posted Podcast #175 to the “RobCasts” section of the site. It’s called As Your Wealth Grows, Increase Your Stock Allocation. With more wealth, you have more Staying Power. With more Staying Power, you should be going with the higher-return asset class. That’s stocks (presuming that prices are at ...
  4 weeks ago

• Podcast #174 — Deferred Market Efficiency: What It Is, What It Signifies

  
  A Rich Life — Authority: 122
  I’ve posted Podcast #174 to the “RobCasts” section of the site. It’s called Deferred Market Efficiency — What It Is, What It Signifies. The passives are wrong about the market being instantly efficient. But the economic realities do come to dominate over time. That’s why it is critical to take price ...
  4 weeks ago

• Buy-and-Hold Is Dead — These Studies Prove It!

  
  A Rich Life — Authority: 122
  I’ve posted (in two parts) an article entitled Buy-and-Hold Is Dead — These Studies Prove It! to the Valuation-Informed Indexing section of the site. Juicy Excerpt:  Buy-and-hold is dead. The Stock-Selling Industry has made millions promoting it. But buy-and-hold investing cannot survive the wealth of ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Housing Market Isn’t Efficient Either

  
  A Rich Life — Authority: 122
  I recently posted a Letter to the Editor at the Early Retirement Planning Insights site entitled The Housing Market Isn’t Efficient Either. Juicy Excerpt: For so long as market participants are being kept in the dark as to the true (valuation-adjusted) values of the things they are purchasing (whether stocks ...
  5 weeks ago

• Podcast #171 — 30 Investment Myths in 60 Minutes

  
  A Rich Life — Authority: 122
  I’ve posted Podcast #171 to the “RobCasts” section of the site. It’s called 30 Investment Myths in 60 Minutes.Can I keep it to two minutes per investment myth? If I don’t, the mike gets turned off!Related posts:Podcast #115 — Internet Censorship Is An Investment Topic I’ve posted Podcast #115 to the ...
  5 weeks ago

• Podcast #169 — The Stock-Return Predictor

  
  A Rich Life — Authority: 122
  I’ve posted Podcast #169 to the “RobCasts” section of the site. It’s called The Stock-Return Predictor.This podcast helps newcomers to Valuation-Informed Indexing learn how to work the calculator.Related posts:Podcast #154 — Low Stock Prices Are Better Than High Stock Prices I’ve posted Podcast #154 to the ...
  6 weeks ago

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