Disciplined investing is rewarded by the financial markets because capitalism, by and large, works. For investors to put their capital at risk, there needs to be a commensurate expected return. This is finance. Everything else is just details.
Investors are rewarded for taking risks. That means that sometimes that return doesn’t appear. In fact, if you look at the equity premium, or the returns stocks minus the returns of short term US Treasury bills, it’s actually pretty rare for the premium to be close to the average.
— Read on retirementresearcher.com/the-art-of-disciplined-investing/
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Understanding Bonds: Riding the Yield Curve
Rates on bonds of different maturities behave independently of each other with short-term rates and long-term rates often moving in opposite directions. By comparing long- and short-term bond yields, the yield curve describes future trends in bond returns.
— Read on www.kiplinger.com/article/investing/T052-C000-S001-riding-the-yield-curve.html
How to Become A Millionaire – 5 Steps to Becoming Wealthy
Want to know how to become a millionaire? Follow this 5 step process: Earn money, spend less than you earn, save, invest, and repeat. Then just add time.
— Read on cashmoneylife.com/how-to-become-a-millionaire-2/
Equity Volatility Does Not Spell Recession – TheStreet
A Recession Is Not Imminent.
Equities and bonds are worried about a recession.
With the escalating trade war with China, the odds of a U.S. recession have risen a little, to say a one-in-three chance. Still, we are hard pressed to see an actual U.S. recession.
— Read on www.thestreet.com/markets/equity-volatility-does-not-spell-recession-15065765
