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Why It Pays To Ignore The Doomsday Crowd

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by  Erik Conley

Fear-mongers are always with us, along with stock touts and charlatans of all varieties. What investors need is a context in which to judge their proclamations, which are always made with the extreme ...

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A Useful Tool For Math-Challenged Investors

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by  Erik Conley

There are lots of online calculators for doing interest-based math. Here’s something you might find helpful: find a text on engineering economy and take 20 minutes to familiarize yourself with basic concepts of ...

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10 Things Gold Bugs Should Have Learned By Now But Probably Haven't

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by  Erik Conley

The following is from Barry Ritholtz, author of The Big Picture blog. As an investor, I am a gold agnostic: When used properly, the metal is a potentially valuable tool in an investment ...

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What Are The Risks Of Investing?

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by  Erik Conley

There are many ways to define and measure investment risk. Here is a list of the types of risk investors face in the capital markets. Beta Beta measures the relationship between a security’s ...

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Deceptive Marketing (part 2)

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by  Erik Conley

Last week I wrote about a deceptive marketing ploy that is very common in the investment advice industry. It involved the use of trickery to make a track record look better than it ...

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