Is investing in the stock market akin to gambling? It certainly carries a reasonable amount of risk. Yet, done correctly, investing in the market is not remotely gambling. For comparison, consider games of chance. The best one to play is Blackjack. If you play every...
Watch this video on YouTube Fifty years ago I scraped together $100 that I earned moving lawns and invested in my first stocks. I had heard a person could make a lot of money owning stocks. The ones I bought were all very small regional companies that I selected with...
Watch this video on YouTube Around twelve years ago the South Dakota Investment Council combined two of their asset classes, domestic and international stocks, into one, global stocks. While this move didn’t make the nightly news, it did signify a growing trend....
The latest information on global capitalization finds that the US now accounts for just 35% of the world’s equity markets. Just ten years ago it was 50%. Asia also owns 35%, Europe has 25%, and Latin America 5%. I spent a better part of Monday analyzing our...
