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The Best Investment Writing Volume 5: Selected Writing from Prominent Investors and Authors

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

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Crisis Investing - What if the Market Turns?

We are ten years into one of the longest bull markets in history. But what if the market turns? What if greed turns to fear, optimism to pessimism? This concern has led many investors to set aside portions of their portfolio in cash, bonds and gold. If history is any indicator, those skittish during the great bull market will be panic stricken when volatility hits. Fun flows into risk assets are prosyclical, rising in good times, falling in bad times. In the fog of war, most people's decision making abilities are impaired, not heightened. Didn't work in prior crises.

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