Perspectives: The Ross Asset Weblog - Page 2

Lowered home values have made it frustratingly difficult for many people to refinance. As house values have dropped, lenders are demanding cash infusions to support an 80% loan-to-...

Greece is broke. Investors no longer believe that big countries like Italy and Spain are certain to repay their debts. This is a crisis of confidence, it is contagious, and it is bad...

There is nothing lucky about owning equities when prices have just fallen. The problem is that, over time, trading tends to underperform not trading because tops and bottoms are impossible...

The outperformance of US legislators has been confirmed numerous times. Prof. Gregory Boller found in 1995 that 25% of the members sampled "showed stock transactions that directly...

Food prices are rising, and extreme weather is the new normal. Gas prices keep climbing. Every year there are more mouths to feed. Surely there must be a way to make a buck on these...

But because we love to bet, we can't help but inject a little gambling by trying hard to beat the expected long term average market return. Unlike a friendly wager, speculating in...

On top of everything else, you are now an irresponsible parent if you don't have a 529 plan in place.  Well...if you've eliminated high fructose corn syrup, and you permit no...

Norway has just 4.9 million people, which translates into Pensjonsfond assets of over $100,000 per person.  Compare that to the pitiful $8,300 per person in Treasury IOUs held...

The Fed, which is short for the Federal Funds rate, is the rate at which banks lend money to each other overnight. The Fed is a barometer for interest rates in general, and it...

Together, India, China, and Brazil contain 3.7 billion people, but only 5% of the world's $29 trillion in liquid stocks and bonds.  Buffett is betting that these high growth economies...