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Mark Twain

Contrarian Indicators — Housing Market Edition

“The Death of the Housing Market?” “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” –Mark Twain It’s hard to be a student of markets without some passing familiarity with so-called contrarian indicators: those harbingers that signal that a market is at an inflection point, presenting investors with a singular opportunity. That opportunity can either be...
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Risk Without Reward: ‘Lost Decade for Stocks’

“The Sky is Blue,” “The Earth is Round” & Other Bold Pronouncements A disastrous ten years for the stock market ends in just a month. Will the turning of a new decade change investors’ luck? –Ben Steverman, “Stocks: The ‘Loss’ Decade”; Business Week (12/1/09) If you’re a long-term investor, you don’t need pundits to tell...
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