This month I’d like to touch on some of the problems that passive investing and ETFs have and their effect on the market. As we will see, the problem with ETFs is that it has become a huge business and rather than be constructed for investment purposes, it is constructed so that it can sell regardless of the foundation which it was built upon. Tim du Toit sent me the … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2016
Virtue Signaling, or … Why Clinton is in Trouble
If you’ve ever played a team sport, you’ve experienced a game that was a mismatch on paper. Now usually that game goes according to form. The better team scores early and often, and the inferior team doesn’t sniff a win. But sometimes the game gets tight. Sometimes the better team makes a few unforced errors, and the inferior team capitalizes. Sometimes there’s a lucky bounce … [Read more...]
