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Q: I've read or heard you speak somewhere over the years about the value of ...
A: This has nothing to do with embracing ambiguity. It has to do with embracing ...

Q: I sat with some clients and prospects recently and listened to them bemoan ...
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Q: I know you have written very dismissively about gold in the past, but I either ...
A: Gold isn't an investment: it's the ultimate international currency, and an ...

Q: If I read you right, the only way to get referrals is to deserve them. I agree, and ...
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Q: I have a bunch of clients with concentrated stock positions in two locally-...
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Shortly after last month's issue was published, I received an "Ask Nick" inquiry from a subscriber who was deeply and actively concerned about an unpleasant eventuality that had, in fact, never happened to him, and which he is firmly and even passionately prepared to turn aside if it ever does. This inquiry, and my response, appear in this issue....keep reading

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One of this resource's most interested and interesting subscribers is David Bahnsen, who recently questioned an answer I'd given to an "Ask Nick" inquiry in defense of "C" shares....keep reading

1. About two hundred years ago with the onset of the Industrial Revolution, life ...
2. I finally caught up with the must-read "Super-Cycle Report" published in ...
3. Huge mergers and acquisitions, though they may work out in the long run (and ...
4. I confess that I think of the U.S. Supreme Court more in terms of social issues ...
5. Readers are always asking me if I read fiction; my answer is no (truth is ...
6. Robert Morris, more than any single individual, was the financier of the ...
7. Amid its usual run of financial pornography, the January/February double issue ...
8. Reader Todd Schanel gave me a heads-up regarding an important academic...
9. Green energy is essentially a hoax; it is far more expensive than fossil fuel, and ...

That Old Tapped-out Consumer Strikes Again...keep reading

Rare, malleable and immune to corrosion, gold made an ideal source of money before the development of modern currency....keep reading

My old friend Gene Hile, a Director at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown in Boston, passed along the following tidbit, which he knew would go right to my growth-of-income-loving heart. I thank him for it, and you should, too....keep reading

Back around the turn of the year, and more than once, we drew your attention to the extremely powerful......keep reading

During significant market declines, many advisors try to deal with clients' fears by offering up a variety of tortured statistical analyses of past bear markets, showing how they've always been temporary....keep reading

Ask Nick November 2005...keep reading

Last month in "Mister Market Goes Off His Meds" I drew attention to the spectacular excesses of investor pessimism implicit in a current dividend yield for the S&P 500 higher (however slightly) than that of the 10-year Treasury note, and a VIX that had soared in under four months from 15 to 48--all of this against the backdrop of the best earnings quarter the S&P 500 companies had ever reported....keep reading

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In your dealings with clients, and especially in your prospecting efforts, it makes the most sense to work from your great strengths....keep reading

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One day in mid-August, my wife and I were having lunch with two couples from St. Louis at a beautiful outdoor restaurant high in the mountains of Montenegro (the world's youngest independent democracy, having declared its independence on June 28th)....keep reading

Q: I'm keenly aware of your dictum not to read and rebut. I follow it in thought,...
A:I'd start off with the bare facts. The Federal Reserve recently announced a ......keep reading

I recently received an e-mail from a neighbor out in Mattituck, at the east end of Long Island where I live and have an office. He asked me if I could recommend someone in the area who could "look over our portfolio and recommend a few adjustments."...keep reading

Longtime readers of my work know that, on its deepest level, the active management vs. passive investing debate puts me into deep REM sleep. Leached of all nuance, my position is that it cannot matter, because investment performance doesn't determine real-life return; investor behavior does....keep reading