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  • Category: Economy
    • How Does a Fed Taper Affect Market Volatility?
    • What’s in a Bear Market?
    • The Brilliance of “I Don’t Know”
    • I Keep Coming Back to One Question
    • Waking up After a Yearlong Coma
    • Some Things Will Never be the Same
    • Where Do We Go From Here?
    • The Market is Talking. Are You Listening?
  • Category: feature
    • Starting Yield and Future Bond Returns
  • Category: Investing
    • Hot 2024 Presidential Election Talk
    • Past Performance and Investment Decisions
    • The Big Short’s, Big Short
    • The Plight of the Dividend Investor
    • Is the Market Detached from Reality?
    • The Loneliest Trade
    • Juicy Money Market Yields Won’t Last
    • When a Bear Becomes a Bull
    • Can AI Pick Investments?
    • Mega Cap Fueled Rally
    • How Much Cash is Too Much?
    • Falling Inflation and Stock Returns
    • The U.S. Debt Ceiling
    • Market Expectations are Everything
    • The Demise of King Dollar
    • Back to Back Calendar Year Losses for Stocks
    • The Market is Quietly Stacking Up Wins
    • Bond Returns Following Difficult Years
    • Not a Typical Bank Failure
    • The Biggest Heist No One is Talking About
    • Assets That Could Hold Up During a Recession
    • Six Investing Lessons from 2022
    • U.S. Debt Ceiling Fiasco: Big Risk or Big Nothing?
    • The Perception of Risk
    • Investment Themes by Decade
    • Santa Claus Rally, Fact or Fiction?
    • Tis the Season for Wall Street Forecasting Pt. VI
    • Top 5 Pure Portfolios’ Blogs: Turkey Edition
    • Avoiding the Extremes
    • Mid-Terms and Markets
    • When the Fed Pivots
    • Silver Linings in a Dismal Year
    • Surprised by Surprises
    • Year of the 180
    • The Market Could Be Wrong About Inflation
    • Fighting the Urge to Throw in the Towel
    • Where to Find Investment Income
    • Intra-Year Market Declines
    • Calling Market Inflection Points
    • Signs of a Market Bottom
    • Which Asset Class Has it Right?
    • Recession Obsession
    • Bear Market Blues, How Much Worse Can it Get?
    • Just How Bad is Inflation?
    • Sniffing Around for Investment Opportunities
    • Investment Royalty to Punching Bag
    • Fighting the Market-Timing Urge
    • Market Sell-Off: The Good & Bad
    • Sell in May and Enjoy the Day?
    • What Does Peak Inflation Look Like?
    • Does it Still Make Sense to Own Bonds?
    • What’s the Bullish Case for Stocks?
    • What Are the Odds of a U.S. Recession?
    • Checking Up on Pandemic Darlings
    • How to Solve the Inflation Problem
    • Waiting for the “All-Clear” Investment Signal
    • How High Can Bond Yields Go?
    • What Goes Up, Must Come Down
    • Throw Away the Old Playbook
    • Managing Market Volatility
    • How Does this Bull Market Stack Up?
    • Pure Portfolios’ Best of 2021
    • Tis the Season for Wall Street Forecasting Pt. V
    • Sniffing All-Time Highs and Nobody is Happy
    • What is the Right Stock Allocation for Retirees?
    • How to Reduce Capital Gains in your Portfolio
    • Not All Indexing is Good
    • Worried About Inflation? You Might Own These Assets
    • When Was the Last Time you Changed your Mind?
    • Is There Ever a Good Reason to Panic Sell?
    • Is Market Volatility Still Elevated?
    • Can Stocks Get Cheaper and Go Higher?
    • Why are ETFs Tax-Efficient?
    • An Investor’s Two Most Powerful Weapons
    • Why Trend Following Could Make Sense for Retirees
    • Taking Cues from the Market
    • Intoxicated with Pessimism
    • Avoiding Stupidity is Underrated
    • It’s Been Too Easy
    • Not So Obvious
    • Predicting Irrational Beasts
    • The Difference Between Amateur and Professional Investors
    • What the Treasury Market is Saying About Inflation
    • Shrinking Life Cycle of an S&P 500 Company
    • The Best Predictor of Stock Returns is Amazingly Simple
    • Higher Capital Gains Tax and Stock Returns
    • No Such Thing as Passive Investing
    • Spectacular Implosion
    • The Identity Leak
    • Not Buying What the Fed is Selling
    • The New Age Investor
    • Beating the Bubble Horse
    • Perspective on Rising Bond Yields
    • Bitcoin, What Of It?
    • Investing at All-Time Highs
    • Is Inflation Coming?
    • Is Your Portfolio Drunk or Sober?
    • The Blue Wave and Stock Returns
    • Getting a Fat Pitch and Not Swinging
    • Good from Far, but Far from Good
    • Scratching Your Degenerate Itch
    • Investing Cash in a Runaway Market
    • Does Your ESG Approach Pass the Smell Test?
    • Municipal Magic
    • The Plight of an All-Equity Investor
    • Bear Market Rally or Did We Hit Bottom?
    • Bear Market Assessment: What We Got Right & Wrong
    • Bear Market Blind Spots
    • What’s Your Process for Making Portfolio Changes?
    • Are Low Yields a Good Reason to Shun Bonds?
    • Random $#%&
    • The Amazing Run of U.S. Tech Stocks
    • Do You Have an Information Filter?
    • Want Dividend Yield? Here’s Where to Look…
    • Stability Breeds Instability
    • Naked Performance
  • Category: Market Commentary
    • August 2023 Market Commentary
    • July 2023 Market Commentary
    • June 2023 Market Commentary
    • May 2023 Market Commentary
    • April 2023 Market Commentary
    • March 2023 Market Commentary
    • February 2023 Market Commentary
    • January 2023 Market Commentary
    • December 2022 Market Commentary
    • November 2022 Market Commentary
    • October 2022 Market Commentary
    • September 2022 Market Commentary
    • August 2022 Video Commentary
    • July 2022 Market Commentary
    • June 2022 Market Commentary
    • May 2022 Market Commentary
    • April 2022 Market Commentary
    • March 2022 Market Commentary
    • February 2022 Market Commentary
  • Category: Planning
    • The Biggest Risk to Retirees Revisited
    • Mitigating Damage without Playing the Market Oracle
    • Pure Portfolios’ 2022 Client Letter
    • Pure Portfolios’ 2021 Client Letter
    • Is a Roth Conversion Right for You?
    • The Untold Story of Pure Portfolios
    • Internal vs. External Focus
    • The Biggest Risk to New Retirees
    • Mitigating Damage without Placing a Trade
    • What’s Your Silver Lining?
    • What Does the SECURE Act Mean for You?
    • Pure Portfolios 2020 Client Letter
  • Category: Retirement
    • The Retirement Propaganda War
    • Hey Retirees, the 4% Rule is Back
    • Retirees: More is the Enemy of Enough
    • Pure Portfolios’ 2022 Reading List
    • Retirement Simplicity is Beautiful
    • Is the 4% Rule Dead?
    • Monte Carlo Analysis: Worthless or Worthwhile?
    • What is Your “Enough?”
    • How to Tell if your 401(k) Plan is Hot Garbage

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