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November 1, 2013
November 1, 2013
“Speculators often prosper through ignorance; it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But the typical experience of the speculator is one of temporary profit and ultimate loss.” -BEN GRAHAM, the father of security analysis POINTS TO PONDER 1. Based on the fact that the […]
By: Evergreen Gavekal
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October 25, 2013
October 25, 2013
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." -ROBERT FROST Those who track financial news might have seen that Eugene Fama and Robert Shiller were recently awarded the Nobel Prize in economics. Fama is considered one of the founding fathers of […]
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October 18, 2013
October 18, 2013
"The iconic actor Errol Flynn is reported to have quipped that his legendary financial problems lay ‘in reconciling my gross habits with my net income’. This is the most concise description I can marshal to explain the problem plaguing our nation’s fiscal authorities." -RICHARD FISHER, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, in a […]
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October 11, 2013
October 11, 2013
"Capitalism without failure is like Christianity without hell."  -WARREN BUFFETT Why economies fail. Does it ever frustrate you that our political leaders never seem to learn?  It certainly exasperates me, yet it’s also a fact that this is a global problem.  Our elected representatives aren’t the only knuckleheads out there, but at least ours are […]
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October 4, 2013
October 4, 2013
"A comfortable investor is a complacent investor, and a complacent investor is someone who is about to get his head handed to him."  -MICHAEL LEWITT, distressed debt expert and author of The Credit Strategist POINTS TO PONDER 1. Stocks initially reacted euphorically when the Fed elected to maintain its trillion-dollar-per-year money creation extravaganza. After a […]
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September 27, 2013
September 27, 2013
"There are two ways to be fooled.  One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true."   -SOREN KIEREGAARD, Danish philosopher and theologian CAPE Fear Not? There is an old saying that a man who doesn’t stand for something will fall for anything.  In my opinion, the same […]
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September 25, 2013
January 13, 2012
“It was a year that made the smart money look dumb.” -WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTER, JONATHAN CHENG Special message: On Thursday evening, January 26th, we will be hosting the annual Evergreen Capital forecast event. It will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Bellevue, 10500 NE 8th (the northeast corner of Bellevue Way and […]
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September 25, 2013
February 3, 2012
"Given the scale of the problems faced by many of the eurozone countries, it is hard to believe they won’t face further periods of extreme stress over the next couple of years."  - ARIF HUSSEIN, DIRECTOR OF ALLIANCE BERNSTEIN'S EUROPEAN FIXED INCOME RESEARCH POINTS TO PONDER 1.  While most observers seem to believe the US […]
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September 25, 2013
February 17, 2012
"In short, the Fed’s actions, rather than helping, are having the perverse effect of destroying the confidence of businesses and individuals and the willingness of banks to loan to anyone but those whose credit is so strong they don’t need loans." - CHARLES SCHWAB POINTS TO PONDER 1.  The Fed’s massive monetary expansion has been […]
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September 25, 2013
February 24, 2012
"This is about as serious and difficult an environment as I have experienced in my career…At times like this, it is more important to survive than to get rich." -BILLIONAIRE INVESTOR GEORGE SOROS. "I have never been as scared as I am now."   -DONALD TSANG, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF HONG KONG. POINTS TO PONDER Wasting […]
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