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- Category: Economy
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- 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
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- December 2022 Market Commentary
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- August 2022 Video Commentary
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- 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