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Circling the Wagons
September 2004
Not for nothing did the great bull market of the 20th century's last two decades begin seriously slipping the last moorings of reality in 1996....keep reading

The Perils Of Protectionism
March 2006
n 1799, a very successful London stockbroker named David Ricardo, looking for a little light vacation reading, came upon a copy of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations. It fairly blew his mind....keep reading

I Feel Like I Owe It To Someone
February 2002
Herman Sandler's and my tenure at Bear Stearns overlapped only for a couple or three years in the mid-1980s....keep reading

America the Vulnerable?
August 2009
"Let's consider some interesting figures. Americans constitute about 4 percent of the world's population but produce about 26 percent of all goods and services. In 2007 U.S. gross domestic product was about $14 trillion, compared to the world's GDP of $54 trillion--about 26% of the world's economic activity takes place in the United States. The next largest economy in the world is Japan's, with a GDP of about $4.4 trillion--about a third the size of ours. The American economy is so huge that it is larger than the economies of the next four countries combined: Japan, Germany, China and the United Kingdom....keep reading

Don't Miss the Moral Dimension
October 2009
I had occasion to read over last month's issue of this newsletter -- something I very rarely ever do -- and noted an "Ask Nick" answer in which my suggestion was that the advisor resign the account in question on moral grounds....keep reading

A Note on the Irrationality of Trying to "Help" Irrational People
July 2007
In the "Ask Nick" section of this issue, there appears an inquiry from a subscriber who has a "client" -- a CPA, no less -- who refuses to account for inflation in his retirement income planning, and thus justifies a decision not to invest in equities....keep reading

Stand To Your Guns
November 2008
I confessed, in my mid-October bulletin to subscribers, a certain amount of distress that only days after the October newsletter was posted -- containing everything I had to say about this and all bear markets -- subscribers were asking what additional thoughts I might have on the continuing decline during that following week....keep reading

Squibs March 2010
March 2010
Chairman of Legg Mason Capital Management, Jeremy Siegel...keep reading

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