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My name is Michael Taylor.  I founded Bankers Anonymous because, as a recovering banker, I believe that the gap between the financial world as I know it and the public discourse about finance is more than just a problem for a family trying to balance their checkbook, or politicians trying to ...more
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Best Dividend Paying Stocks For Dividend Growth Investors – June 2018
Wednesday, June 27, 2018 12:59 PM EDT
Defensive Investors are defined as investors who are not able or willing to do substantial research into individual investments, and therefore need to select only the companies that present the least amount of risk.
In this article: AFL, CAH, CINF, LEG, LOW, SWK, APD, CTAS, ES, HRL, PBCT, ROST, TROW
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City Direct Equity Investments – Ugh
Monday, November 17, 2014 4:40 PM EDT
Successful small companies – and big ones too – have to constantly try to eliminate jobs to make a company financially sustainable.
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A Million Dollars Richer - For Almost Nothing Except Coffee
Monday, November 10, 2014 7:28 PM EDT
What are your 'indefensible' spending items? And what would you have if you saved instead?
In this article: JO
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Would You Like To Understand High Frequency Trading?
Friday, October 31, 2014 3:30 AM EDT
The highly unusual part about this book is that high frequency trading up until now has basically been like Fight Club, in so far as the first rule of high frequency trading is that nobody talks about high frequency trading.
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Political Markets: Democrats’ Chances Of Holding The Senate Just Doubled
Wednesday, October 29, 2014 3:16 PM EDT
Today, the ‘market’ has jumped to a 40% chance of Democrats retaining the Senate, on the Iowa Political Markets.
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On Retirement, From A Millennial’s Perspective
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 6:28 PM EDT
Why does a rational 24 year-old decide to put away retirement savings? Stated another way, how can someone like me best convince a 24 year-old of the extraordinary opportunity for wealth-creation by starting to save for retirement now?
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Rebalancing, Explained
Monday, October 27, 2014 3:46 PM EDT
Rebalancing is one of those investment things you should do regularly, like brushing your teeth (only less frequently) or going to your college reunion.
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Mortgage Lending Made Easy Makes Me Uneasy
Friday, October 24, 2014 3:50 AM EDT
Mortgage originator and aggregator banks are scared to death of any misstep in the underwriting process, because that allows Fannie and Freddie to kick the mortgage back onto the mortgage bank’s balance sheet.
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More On Actively Managed Equity Mutual Funds
Tuesday, October 21, 2014 6:06 AM EDT
Lately I’ve taken to saying boldly and loudly to anyone who asks my opinion that every academic study ever done on actively managed (high cost) mutual funds vs. passively managed index (low cost) mutual funds shows that...
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Volatility In Stocks – That’s A Good Thing
Monday, October 20, 2014 11:54 AM EDT
A volatile market stays just unattractive enough for short-term and speculative investors to allow for predictable, positive, long-term returns for long-term investors.
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Do You Need An Investment Advisor? And Why?
Monday, October 13, 2014 4:16 PM EDT
Some friends of mine recently opened up investment accounts with a guy who is a salesman at a national insurance company. My friends also hired a “fiduciary” to review their investment plans.
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More On Subprime Lending Policies From The Feds
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 11:59 PM EDT
Focus on positive outcomes for the 80% of subprime borrowers who pay their mortgage on time shifts the conversation away from the other 20% who will not be able to pay their mortgage.
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Sigtarp Is Back! Be Mad Again And Happy
Friday, October 3, 2014 4:52 PM EDT
My favorite government watchdog of all time, SIGTARP, The Norse God of Financial Accountability, recently published another great critique of Treasury’s handling of TARP rules, this one about executive compensation within bailed out firms.
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529 Accounts Vs. Retirement Accounts
Monday, September 29, 2014 5:45 PM EDT
Some friends of mine with young kids – like me – asked me recently to look over their investment plans, and to give them my opinion on what they were already doing, as well as what they should do next.
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Michael Lewis Still Says It Better Than Anyone
Saturday, September 27, 2014 3:03 PM EDT
Michael Lewis wins the best essay trophy once again. Like clockwork. It’s so unfair.
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Gross To Janus – Wait, What?!?!
Friday, September 26, 2014 10:35 AM EDT
Bill Gross, the rockstar bond fund manager who co-founded PIMCO, is out the door - reportedly before it slammed on him. Janus, his destination, is celebrating.
In this article: JNS
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