A historical look at long-term real returns on the U.S. stock market. The post What’s the Worst Long-Term Return For U.S. Stocks? appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense ..read more

Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by Global X and Fabric: See here to learn more about Global X’s suite of ETFs Go to meetfabric.com/spirits for more information on life insurance from Fabric by Gerber Life On today’s show, we discuss: The Biggest Winners in the Stock Market Household Wealth Gains Are a Tailwind to Consumer Spending American Borrowers Are on Shakier Ground. These Charts Show ..read more

Inflation went from 9% to 3% without a recession. Some people want to give all the credit to the Federal Reserve. I think they got lucky. The soft landing, or whatever you want to call it, happened despite the Fed’s best efforts to cause people to lose their jobs and throw the economy into a recession. It helped that corporations and households came into the rising rate environment prepared. Corporations locked in l ..read more

Hendrik Bessimbinder has produced some of my favorite stock market research. Bessimbinder discovered that four out of every seven stocks in the U.S. have underperformed cash (one-month T-bills) since 1926. And just 4% of companies accounted for all the wealth gains for the entire stock market in that time. The stock market runs on power laws over the long run. Of course, there are stocks that do well over short time fram ..read more

On today’s show, we spoke with Matt Middleton, Founder and CEO of Future Proof to discuss updates and changes to Future Proof 2024! See here for more information on registration for Future Proof 2024 and here for updates on the festival On today’s show, we discuss: Benefits of past Future Proof events Updates on what is coming in 2024 Breakthru experiences at Future Proof An updated fintech demo program Spon ..read more

The Fed will likely begin cutting interest rates in the months ahead, for good reason. Last week felt like a victory against high inflation: We’ve now had no price increases on the overall inflation rate for two months.1 Some pundits still aren’t so sure it’s time to take a victory lap just yet. What about the 1970s? There was a spike in inflation at the outset of the decade, it fell, then re-accelerate ..read more

Bill Sweet joined me on the show to discuss questions about executing a die with zero retirement strategy, changing tax status on your tax return, tax-optimizing your retirement distributions and muni bond funds. Further Reading: My All-Time High in Savings 1Prices caught up in a hurry. The first-mover advantage helped here too. 2We had a few friends, family members and unnamed financial advisors try to talk us out of it ..read more

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There aren’t all that many millionaires in the world. People with wealth in excess of $1 million make up just 1.5% of the world’s population. Yet this group controls nearly half of the world’s wealth (around $214 trillion in total). There are even fewer billionaires — a little less than 2,700 worldwide or a number that rounds down to 0% of the global population. Just 26 individuals are worth $50 bi ..read more

Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by Standpoint Asset Management: On today’s show, we spoke with Eric Crittenden, CIO of Standpoint Asset Management to discuss trend following and all-weather portfolios. See here for the Content Library and here for Standpoint’s monthly update. On today’s show, we discuss: Standpoints total investable universe Eric’s background prior to Standpoint As ..read more