Crawling Road » stocks http://crawlingroad.com/blog The Permanent Portfolio, Investing, Finance and Random Thoughts. Tue, 22 May 2012 21:55:14 +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 » stocks http://crawlingroad.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://crawlingroad.com/blog Vanguard Questionnaire Says 100% Stock is Great Idea and Unicorns are Real http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2012/03/26/vanguard-risk-questionnaire-says-100-stock-is-great-idea-and-unicorns-are-real/ http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2012/03/26/vanguard-risk-questionnaire-says-100-stock-is-great-idea-and-unicorns-are-real/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:01:17 +0000 Craig Rowland http://crawlingroad.com/blog/?p=7124

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I just read about a Vanguard retirement planning calculator recommending someone put 100% of their money into the stock market. Well, 100% in any asset class is gambling, not investing. The Vanguard questionnaire assumes many things about the future that history simply doesn’t support in [...]

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]]> http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2012/03/26/vanguard-risk-questionnaire-says-100-stock-is-great-idea-and-unicorns-are-real/feed/ 7 How Low Can the Stock Market Go? http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2012/03/11/how-low-can-the-stock-market-go/ http://crawlingroad.com/blog/2012/03/11/how-low-can-the-stock-market-go/#comments Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:52:53 +0000 Craig Rowland http://crawlingroad.com/blog/?p=7016

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A theme that runs on this blog is to not take anything for granted in terms what will happen while investing. In particular, I often mention the idea that any asset can fall in price very steeply at any time and for a multitude of reasons. Stocks in particular have had a very storied [...]

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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 or bond. [...]

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Just going over some data on actively managed vs. passively managed funds and wanted to post the Standard & Poor’s Indices Versus Active (SPIVA) report link: S&P SPIVA Report Cards S&P is the creator of the S&P 500 index plus a variety of other domestic and international stock and bond indices. [...]

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Let’s talk about risk and the future. Sometimes I get a question about event X or event Y or event Z. These can sometimes be extreme events that someone is worried over. They often want to know how the Permanent Portfolio will deal with one or all of them. My answer is that nobody knows what every [...]

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A poster on the forum brought up a great question on whether index funds would be forced to buy the upcoming Facebook IPO. The worry is that the index funds will load up on the IPO and take a loss later as the IPO price comes back down to Earth. No, this isn’t likely to happen. IPOs are, for the [...]

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Doing some research recently I’ve found that almost 9 out of 10 of the trades on any given day on Wall Street are between professionals, not individuals. Think about that for a second. When you go to make a trade, 9 out of 10 times you are doing it against someone that does it for a living. And not [...]

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  I see this chart posted from Jermy Siegel’s book Stocks for the Long Run from time to time to defend why owning lots of stocks is the way to go and why owning gold is some kind of chump move. Well I think this chart is misleading for several reasons. Gold is useful in a diversified portfolio [...]

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Over on the forum there were some questions about my latest podcast where I discuss Harry Browne's use of "aggressive" stocks in earlier versions of the Permanent Portfolio. This is a great topic and it was good question that I think I want to talk about here.

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

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