Broad Oak Magazine

I'm partway through a 1990s American TV programme (htp: Jesse) about the lead-up to, and aftermath of the Great Crash of 1929 . At that...

The Contrarian Investor raises an issue I've been pondering recently: in today's financial climate, are stocks and shares old hat? T...

Jesse has been doing some scrying, and perceives that a sudden market move is imminent. "What's the McClellan Oscillator?" M...

A startling picture of how share ownership has shrunk - pretty steadily, despite the Conservatives' pledge in the 1980s to widen it. Th...

This report by Jim McTague from Barron's, reproduced on the Cumberland Advisors site, gives an indication of how the money experts were ...

A quote from the Economist article cited yesterday: real returns from American shares were just 0.1% a year from 1966-81; they fell a dismal...

I wondered recently what was the effect of inflation on shares - are they a hedge? Past history suggests not. Now there is corroboration fro...

Cut-throat Jake spies danger Pearce Financial ( Financial Sense, yesterday ), like Marc Faber, believes that the East is dangerously overh...

It seems respondents are as much confused as I am, about which way to go. I quoted Benjamin Graham's advice for passive investors, which...

(Picture source) David Yu ( Safe Haven, yesterday ) comments on the unusually high volume of trade on the NASDAQ recently, and so expects a ...

A couple of useful items from Financial Sense : Gary Dorsch (October 18) explains that a falling dollar helps the S&P 500, "which e...

Here's a 22 May article by Cliff d'Arcy in The Motley Fool, comparing house prices and the FTSE 100. From mid-1984 to December last ...

Dan Denning comments on the recent rush for cash and safe bonds in The Daily Reckoning Australia today. He also repeats Marc Faber's poi...