One of the problems facing long-term, patient investors using mutual funds and ETFs is that many of their fellow investors are traders. It’s why we favor individual stocks where you call the shots. Asjylyn Loder reports in The Wall Street Journal on the volatile nature of fund flows, writing: BlackRock said Monday it received $20 billion in net inflows in the second quarter. While the sum is enormous, it was down from more than $100 billion a year ago. BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager and a bellwether of low-cost index-based investing. BlackRock isn’t alone: For the first six … [Read more...]
VIDEO: Sen. Rand Paul Slams Unhinged Former CIA Director John Brennan
Your Retirement Life: 1972 DeTomaso Pantera, A Coyote in Wolf’s Clothing
Here’s a wonderful story about my friend Marty Quadland and the rebirth of his 1972 DeTomaso Pantera: “A Coyote in Wolf’s Clothing,” featured this month in Hot Rod: Following retirement, Quadland realized a dream of his and moved west to the mountains of Wyoming. In preparation, he downsized considerably, selling his SCCA race cars, several motorcycles, and a late-model exotic, and, for the first time, he considered selling the Pantera. His son intervened, however. “I saw the look on my son’s face when I told him I might sell it,” he recalls. “He thought the Pantera would be his someday. I … [Read more...]
Tucker Carlson’s Interview with President Trump on Russia
After his historic summit with Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump is interviewed here by Tucker Carlson. Watch the interview below and read Tucker's comments on the successful summit. Tucker begins by saying "With remarkable speed and intensity, the media, the foreign policy establishment and both political parties have come together as one to attack Donald Trump for his meeting yesterday with Russian president Vladimir Putin. Anderson Cooper, John McCain, and Mitt Romney all described the president's remarks about Russia as "disgraceful." Former CIA director John Brennan called them … [Read more...]
Good Guys with Guns
A new documentary created by Matrix Entertainment, in association with Oath Keepers, seeks to explain why a good guy with a gun is the best way to stop a bad guy with a gun. The filmmakers are interviewing some well known advocates of the Second Amendment. A recent email from Oath Keepers on the progress of the film states "The interviews of STEWART RHODES, PASTOR CHUCK BALDWIN, SHERIFF RICHARD MACK and LARRY PRATT are done and you can see them in the two trailers below." … [Read more...]
Price Controls: Bad Economics and Fuel for Instability
Basic economics dispels the idea that price controls are useful. Nevertheless governments (including America's) regularly try to control prices. Whether via direct price caps and floors, or quota systems, or through inflation or deflation of the money supply, government attempts to control prices are distortive to markets, and eventually lead to some kind of backlash. Sometimes the response is a black market, as is thriving in Venezuela today. Other times, hoarding takes place. Other times it's more violent. Sometimes, the hardest thing about price controls is removing them. People get used … [Read more...]
The DIY Theft-Protection You Need for Your Car
I warned readers back in April of last year about the threat of thieves using your own key fob to start your car and drive away with it. The threat is getting worse as thieves are taking notice of key fob technologies. USA Today supplies an interesting and convenient tip on how to keep your car safe, especially when traveling out of town. Phoebe Wall Howard reports: Given that the best way to store your car keys at night is by putting them in a coffee can, what's an ex-FBI agent's advice to protect cars from theft during the day? Wrap car fobs in aluminum foil. “Although it's not ideal, … [Read more...]
RAGE Gauge July: America the Satisfied?
Over the last month, Americans’ perception of risk hasn’t changed much. One factor of their perceived risk is at a very low level though, their dissatisfaction with their country. For over a decade now Gallup’s poll of American dissatisfaction with the country has been 61% or higher. Not since August of 2005 have only 60% of Americans been dissatisfied. That changed with this month’s survey results. For the first time in 13 years, dissatisfaction dropped down to 60%. Satisfaction is also the highest it has been since 2005, at 38%. Not since September of 2005 have Americans been so … [Read more...]
What Happens if Hackers Take Down the Grid?
With summer heat stressing the grid to the max, even an attack on a small part of the grid could have grave consequences. Read what I wrote about grid security back on December 8, 2017. Each day I try to get you to consider the broad spectrum of risk in your life, and to determine the appropriate response level to that risk. A risk that is becoming more prevalent today is that of a cyber attack on America's power grid. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been tracking hackers as they map America's power grid and probe it for vulnerabilities. Anyone who can remember the 2003 … [Read more...]
Your Retirement Life: How Do You Know Where to Live in Retirement?
If you are like many soon-to-be-retirees in America, you're looking forward to getting away from your cold, northern, probably-high-tax state and settling down in retirement in a southern locale with low taxes and warm winters. But, how can you know where you'll like it best in your Golden Years? (for information on choosing a low-tax state, see the Richardcyoung.com Liberty & Freedom Map here). Last month I encouraged you to do some A/B testing. Live short-term or spend a vacation in some of the places you'd potentially move to during retirement. Without actually staying there for a … [Read more...]
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