The market has been rather tame since our last issue, and that makes sense after the big run higher in stocks through the first eight weeks of 2019. This week, we saw a lot of what’s known as “digestion” in the markets, as traders weighed the progress on the trade talks between the United States

Good fortune is a gift that deserves reverence. The writer Eckhart Tolle once said, “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” Unfortunately, the sad and curious case of musician, actor and “Empire” star Jussie Smollett reminds us of the folly of forgetting phenomenal fortune. If you

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My, my, my it’s a beautiful world I like swimming in the sea I like to go out beyond the white breakers Where a man can still be free, or a woman if you are one I like swimming in the sea… — Colin Hay, “Beautiful World” How do you define beauty? The concept itself

Some weeks, you wait. Other weeks, you act. This week, there was a whole lot of active buying at the Successful Investing table. The shopping spree began with last Friday’s recommendation to buy the Vanguard Utilities ETF (VPU) with a 20% Income Portfolio allocation. Then the robust buying began a couple days later, as on

What is beauty? The concept itself has been debated for over two millennia in Western philosophy. Is beauty “objective” (i.e. in the object) or is it “subjective” (i.e. in the eye of the beholder)? There’s no easy answer here, as some of the world’s best minds have debated the very nature of beauty as part

At the beginning of the year, market prognosticators like to make calls about what they think will happen over the next 12 months. Most of these prognosticators turn out to be way off. Yet there are some market soothsayers who have proven to get many things right over the years, and one of them is

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In Friday’s hotline, I told you that we were ever so close to getting a new buy signal in our Domestic Plan. Well, over the past two trading sessions, our Domestic Fund Composite (DFC) has climbed back over its 39-week moving average. And along with our confirming indicator, the Wilshire 5000, both broad-based domestic indicators

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