Investing Caffeine

DECEMBER 2, 2024

As you can see from the chart below , the stock market is priced at levels not seen since 2001 and valuations are roughly double what they were at the lows of the 2008 Financial Crisis.

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2023

He brings a fascinating approach and a bit of an outlier, contrarian way of looking at the world that has allowed him to identify specific changes in what’s taking place in the economy, in the markets, and essentially provide a helpful sounding board to many of the world’s best investors. Simple answer, demographics.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 19, 2023

More importantly, perhaps, the past 12 months have marked a generational shift for financial markets as the Fed repeatedly raised interest rates to try to contain the worst inflation in four decades. economy, the world’s largest, have not been without consequences, far and wide. The economy grew at an average pace of 2.1

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 12, 2023

trillion into the economy in addition to the $4.1 In 1998, the then-future Nobel laureate Paul Krugman made a remarkable and erroneous prediction : “By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.” Inflation was already hot.

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The Big Picture

MAY 21, 2024

So it’s been, you know, back in, in 2001, strategists were telling you to put about 70% of your money in stocks. But what we’ve all realized over the last, you know, 20 years since Reg FD in 2001 is that management games, their numbers, and then they beat these made up numbers systematically. You know, a big sci-fi fan.

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Calculated Risk

MAY 22, 2023

Here are a few excerpts from a speech by then Fed Chair Alan Greenspan in April 2001: The paydown of federal debt "Today I want to address a subject in which your group and the Federal Reserve share a keen interest--the paydown of the federal debt and its implications for the economy and financial markets.

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Calculated Risk

MAY 21, 2024

Here are a few excerpts from a speech by then Fed Chair Alan Greenspan in April 2001: The paydown of federal debt "Today I want to address a subject in which your group and the Federal Reserve share a keen interest--the paydown of the federal debt and its implications for the economy and financial markets.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

There are few people in the world who understand the interrelationships between central banks, the economy, and markets like Bill Dudley does this, this is just a master class in, in understanding all the factors that affect everything from the economy to inflation, to the labor market, the housing market, and of course, federal Reserve policy.

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Investing Caffeine

MARCH 3, 2025

In my more than three decades of investing, I have repeatedly encountered extensive segments of the financial markets that would qualify as speculative bubbles, whether it was subprime mortgages and credit default swaps (CDS) in the 2008 Financial Crisis, or dot-com companies in the 2000 bursting of the technology bubble.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 3, 2024

So that was in, that was in 2001 early then. And so I’ve noticed that me coming in 2001, think about it, not really a great equity market Barry Ritholtz : Dot.com implosion. And I think that’s reflective of the economy. The market’s caught up to you. Barry Ritholtz : That’s amazing.

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