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04 Sep Ignore Opinions, It’s Earnings That Matter

Posted at 09:08h in The Friday Brief by Sam Bass Jr.

Investing in stocks is the very best way to passively build wealth over a lifetime. But too many think it is more like gambling than sensible wealth-creation. The stock market's gyrations of late can certainly reinforce the argument that it's too risky a bet for the family nest egg.

17 Oct Drive Around Volatility, Not Through It

Posted at 14:30h in The Friday Brief by Sam Bass Jr.

With all the flashing lights, colorful charts, complicated lingo, computers, algorithms, and statistics associated with the stock and bond markets, it's pretty easy to think of them as logical, efficient, monolithic machines. But nothing could be further from the truth.

01 Aug The Coming Correction

Posted at 12:44h in The Friday Brief by Sam Bass Jr.

For the past several months the subject of an impending market correction has moved to the fore of media attention and investor concern. With yesterday's stock market pull-back, more have joined the discussion.