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Macroeconomics, Even With All Of Our Computers And With All Of Our Information - Is Not An Exact Science And Is Incapable Of Being An Exact Science.

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.

When The Economy Was Going Up, [milton Friedman And I] Both Gave The Same Advice, And When The Economy Was Going Down, We Gave The Same Advice. But In Between He Didn't Change His Advice At All.

The Growth Of A Nation's Productive Potential Is The Central Factor In Determining Its Growth In Real Wages And Living Standards.... High Rates Of Investment And Saving Usually Have A Big Payoff In Promoting Economic Growth.

The Sad Truth Is That It Is Precisely Those Who Disagree Most With The Hypothesis Of Efficient Market Pricing Of Stocks, Those Who Pooh-pooh Beta Analysis And All That, Who Are Least Able To Understand The Analysis Needed To Test That Hypothesis.