January 24, 2009 –
The difficulty is that we are the problem and the solution. This time no one laughs when you say "this one really is different". Even W.B. acknowledges the thought as true. Why will the banks not lend? And yet, this is the time when the greatest opportunities abound. Volitility goes both up and down and the long term trend will be up from here despite some stumbles and bumps. I do not understand the lack of optimism in the market when it pervades so many other facets of everyday life right now - with the palpable sense of hope abounding. Perhaps we need something more meaningful to invest in - direct investments in the people we care about and in our communities. [more]
January 19, 2009 –
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RELATED TICKERS: PFE
, DEO
Energy radiates from Washington and from America and reverberates in every hood and in every village and corner of our globe. Even people who didn't vote for him look to the new American President with hope. Obama's hope may extend into the market tomorrow in a big way. If people commit to making the difference then the upward swing may last and even continue upward. If people start to think, oh, we have hired someone new, now we can get back to life as usual - with no additional effort required; then the market, whatever its direction on inauguration day, will continue on its present path. Unfortunately, no world citizen can be inactive or assume that others will do what needs to be done. We each see what needs doing and now we must do that and encourage those in our midst to do the same. In this moment, Soros is watching us, the American and world market participants, to see if we choose to make our American and world situation more responsible and abundant, or more distant and existential in our comforts. Future generations will look back at the opportunities abounding at this moment and study our actions as they judge us. Be part of it. You know what needs done in your community - Make it happen. And keep investing. Show what you believe through your investments in your community and in your financial future. [more]
November 30, 2008 –
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RELATED TICKERS: PFE
, JNJ
, KFT
As I consider what to invest in tomorrow when the market opens, I look at my portfolio and consider its allocation. And I realize that although there are couple of small growth companies that I really want to add to my portfolio, I currently have a greater ownership of those kinds of companies in my portfolio and a lower portion of dividend paying companies like Pfizer (PFE), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ) and Kraft (KFT) than I would like to have in order to consider my portfolio well balanced. So I will sift through various TMF newsletter recommendations and pick a few good dividend payers from the Best Buys Now lists. I have dividends on my mind as a long term strategy for wealth creation and maintenance because I have recently seen on television and read in my books some 19th century references to financial success. [more]
November 19, 2008 –
In the December 4,2008 New York Review of Books http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22113 George Soros discusses topics from his current book, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets, as well as his 1987, The Alchemy of Finance and his 1998 The Crisis of Global Capitalism. He argues that we, as participants in the market, occassionally affect the very market "fundamentals" that we use to determine when to buy and sell and that similarly to ourselves, government market regulators also have biased impacts that can affect the market fundamentals too. He calls this reflexivity. The extremity of the current market bubble, he argues (paraphrasing), was exaserbated by Alan Greenspan's desire to not be seen putting on the breaks for the economy, but that, had he done so, the bubble would not have grown so large nor the bursting been so catastrophic. [more]
September 24, 2008 –
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RELATED TICKERS: HANS
, MIDD
, BWLD
There are so many great opportunities right now that it is very tempting to sell off some shares of the winners in my portfolio to raise capital for new portfolio additions. I am aware that I will feel let down if those shares sold then rise as expected or if I do not act and the shares of the companies I wish to buy rise as expected. [more]
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