Because Free Markets are Sexy...

Apart from the reason listed here, put simply: Sum Zero.
According to Divya Narenda, its founder, Sum Zero is a “Wikipedia-like” investment idea database structured within a social network dedicated to the buyside. In other words, if you are an analyst, portfolio manager or researcher you can access their system and discuss stocks with [...]

As if there hasn’t been enough talk of bubbles recently, we thought we would draw your attention to Alternative Investments. Two Swiss economists, Philippe Masset and Jean-Philippe Weisskopf, analyzed the prices of wine in comparison to the Russell 3000 index (odd comparison) and found that wine would have had the highest return between the [...]

In the wake of the recent controversy surrounding Free Markets, and more specifically, the “How could we be so stupid as to believe markets could work?” statements, we feel it is time to clear the air and make a couple blanket statements:
Efficient Markets does Not mean continuous growth
It is excusable in a way. We [...]

Along the same vein of our last article on this subject, we continue to find amusing investment tips in Kiplinger’s:
Page 31 of their February 2010 edition is called:
Make a Buck off a Sagging Dollar – by Andrew Tanzer
This articles states how, since the US Dollar is falling, what alternatives an investor should find in order [...]

As long time proponents of market efficiency, we are still amused by the investment methods that keep getting regurgitated. They tend to fall under two main camps: The Charting methods, that analyze past performance and try to find trends, and the Fundamentals method, which analyzes various companies and determines which is undervalued. Of [...]