Can You Say, “Useless Platitudes?” With the usual onslaught of year-end investing articles, I’ve noticed a sub-genre emerging this year. Namely, advisors who claim that the secret to market-beating performance is “avoiding bear markets” (and implicitly, that parking your money with them is the best way to do that). I suppose the corollary would be,...Read More
My household doesn’t eat ham or bacon, because we avoid eating pig products, which Jewish dietary laws prohibit. But we take some liberties when we eat out, like this morning. So, biting into (apparently) his first piece of real bacon, my 9 nine year-old son excitedly pronounced, “It tastes like Baco’s!” General Mills, owner of...Read More
