Crawling Road » gurus http://crawlingroad.com/blog The Permanent Portfolio, Investing, Finance and Random Thoughts. Tue, 15 May 2012 10:05:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= The Crawling Road Money Show focuses on investing, finance and economics. We discuss the Permanent Portfolio and other topics to make investing simple and successful. Craig Rowland clean Craig Rowland podcastsxml@crawlingroad.com podcastsxml@crawlingroad.com (Craig Rowland) 2010-2012 Craig Rowland Simple investing for success. investing, permanent portfolio, indexing, stocks, bonds, cash, gold, harry browne, john chandler, craig rowland, craigr, crawling road Crawling Road » gurus http://crawlingroad.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://crawlingroad.com/blog Gold: Not a stock and not a bond. http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2012/03/06/gold-not-a-stock-and-not-a-bond/ http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2012/03/06/gold-not-a-stock-and-not-a-bond/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:45:35 +0000 Craig Rowland http://crawlingroad.com/blog/?p=6937

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Just some quick notes because the “gold is worthless compared to stocks” debate has heated up again in the news. Let’s just get this out of the way: Gold is not a stock or bond. This is not groundbreaking wisdom, it is plainly obvious. Gold will not have interest or dividends like a stock [...]

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Market timing is something I’ve found many investors get drawn to eventually in their search for performance. My opinion is that market timing simply doesn’t work for a host of reasons. However it’s common to hear that if an investor just timed these various assets correctly they could have [...]

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Remember the Hidenberg Omen from August 2010? A sure sign of doom and destruction that I talked about before: Hidenburg Omen Goes Up In Flames How’d it do since then? Not well. Vanguard Total Stock Market is still up +20% since then. That even includes the rather anemic year so far in [...]

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Well I don’t normally comment on current market news, but it looks like the Fed may keep up the pressure on long term bond rates. This, despite the predictions of many gurus that long term bonds have nowhere to go but up and should be avoided. Well rates continue to fall. As of right now they are [...]

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Since August 2010 and the Hindenburg Omen was spotted in the market, what has happened?

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I saw this ad recently for a get rich quick penny stock scheme: Let’s look at the ad copy a bit and provide some interpretation: “23-year-old college student John Bell isn’t like most of his classmates…In 2009 he turned a $10,000 student loan into $1,000,000 by betting on risky penny stocks.” Yes [...]

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Here’s the secret about market predictions I learned a while back: “Predict early and often!” Good market predictors make lots of predictions all the time. That way they always have something they can point to that shows they are right. Market gurus have so many predictions that are wrong it is [...]

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Canadian Couch Potato recently interviewed Rick Ferri who had some comments on gold. He’s made these comments over the years but I think he misses the point or doesn’t want to get the point. Gold is just one asset in a diversified portfolio. It is not the only thing an investor should own. Gold [...]

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Market narratives may provide the emotional framework people want to see in life to explain events, but they mean nothing. The future is not predictable no matter how plausible someone's narrative about it may sound.

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People should be absolutely ruthless when it comes to assessing investment advice. An attitude of guilty until proven innocent will serve them well.

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