Many global investors avoid investing in Russian equities. Despite the country holding democratic elections and the legalization of private property rights since the fall of communism in 1991, Russia remains a pariah for most investors for good reason. Some of the factors that work against Russia include the widely-held beliefs that it violates human rights, jails …
For the Fiscal Year 2012, the total U.S. Federal Spending was about $3.8 Trillion and the Tax Revenue was about $2.5 Trillion resulting in a deficit of about $1.3 Trillion. For many years now, the U.S. has been running deficits as revenues were lower than expenditures. In fact, expenditures have been soaring due to rising …
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I wrote an article last week discussing about the strategy of investing in stocks during a crisis for great returns. This post is a follow up to that article but takes on the benefits of investing in equities for the very long-term. Very long-term can be defined as a time period measured in decades. …
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Bloomberg BusinessWeek recently published its annual ranking of the top 50 U.S. companies. From the article: The Bloomberg Businessweek 50 ranks companies on how well they’ve done and how well analysts expect them to do. Half of the ranking is based on past performance: their stocks’ risk-adjusted returns over one and five years. The other half is …
