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Even very volatile investments may, in moderate amounts, reduce a portfolio’s volatility if the investment is not correlated with the rest of the portfolio’s components.

Private property, free markets, and protection from aggression solve a lot of problems.

Talking about the question “How should you manage your money in 2018?” this show covers a lot of ground over 23 minutes of conversation.

Or do they go up indefinitely, albeit interrupted by some significant corrections?

The free market fails to be a centralized economy. That’s why it is called “free.”

I have gradually been writing a series of articles on each Bear Market to show how quickly they correct and how high the subsequent Bull Market rises.

These “strange but true” returns occur more frequently than you might expect.

If you ever wondered how the stock market works, this 2006 article is for you. It is both the personal story of David Marotta’s maternal grandfather, Donald Mortlock, and an explanation of how the market of the stock market is made.

This year, we have made three significant changes and are offering four different gone fishing portfolios based on which custodian hosts your accounts.

This gone fishing portfolio is our default portfolio which can be used at any custodian.

We recommend this gone fishing portfolio for accounts hosted at Vanguard.

We recommend this gone fishing portfolio for accounts hosted at TD Ameritrade.

We recommend this gone fishing portfolio for accounts hosted at Charles Schwab.

Investments, like life, are volatile, risky, and on average rewarding. Diversification and rebalancing help to protect yourself from the volatility.

This 1998 speech by George Marotta was in response to President Bill Clinton bold statement that “the era of big government is over.” Is it really? Twenty years later the skepticism of this post rings true.