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I’m not much of a contrarian. By definition, contrarians are wrong most of the time. Fighting the herd only tends to work at the extremes. Here’s…

A reader asks: What are top 10 prudent indicators a retail investor needs to know before stepping into equities? Well there are no indicators in the…

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One of the hard parts about using history as a playbook in the markets is we don’t have a huge sample size. In the past 100…

Posted August 24, 2026 by Ben Carlson Today’s Talk Your Book is brought to you by Halo: On today’s show, we discuss: How Aura shows the…

In December 2024 I wrote that international stocks were the most hated asset class in the world. Foreign stocks have gone on a nice little run…

Here’s a brief history of the 401k plan: The Revenue Act of 1978 included an obscure provision called Section 401k which offered employees the option to…

A reader asks: On various shows the idea of the current economy being recession-proof or Teflon has come up. In the age of information availability and…

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There’s a neat website called Ordinary Abundance that looks at many of life’s luxuries that are relatively new that we all take for granted. It does…