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It Isn't That Greed's Increased. What's Increased Is The Realization That You've Got A Free Field To Reach Out For What You'd Like To Do.

Still, I Figure We Shouldn't' Discourage Fans Of Actively Managed Funds. With All Their Buying And Selling, Active Investors Ensure The Market Is Reasonably Efficient. That Makes It Possible For The Rest Of Us To Do The Sensible Thing, Which Is To Index. Want To Join Me In This Parasitic Behavior? To Build A Well-diversified Portfolio, You Might Stash 70 Percent Of Your Stock Portfolio Into A Wilshire 5000-index Fund And The Remaining 30 Percent In An International-index Fund.

The Recent Market Run-up That Appreciated Run-of-the- Mill Shares Also Chanced To Send Up Those Token Gold Holdings. Pure Luck, Undeserved And Unlikely To Reoccur. Good Questions Outrank Easy Answers.

What We Know About The Global Financial Crisis Is That We Don't Know Very Much.

Two-thirds Of A Century After [the Road To Serfdom] Got Written, Hindsight Confirms How Inaccurate Its Innuendo About The Future Turned Out To Be.