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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.

I'm Not Sure Most Of The People That Get Caught Up In The Middle Of A Bubble Can Be Described As Irrational. It Seems Pretty Rational To Buy A House And Flip It In The Next Few Weeks At A Profit When That's Been Happening For Along Time.

Even If This Advice To Portfolio Decision Makers To Drop Dead Is Good Advice, It Obviously Is Not Counsel That Will Be Eagerly Followed. Few People Will Commit Suicide Without A Push. And Fewer Still Will Pay Good Money To Be Told To Do What Is Against Human Nature And Self-interest To Do.

Forsake Search For Needles That Are So Very Small In Haystacks That Are So Very Large.

To Prove That Wall Street Is An Early Omen Of Movements Still To Come In Gnp, Commentators Quote Economic Studies Alleging That Market Downturns Predicted Four Out Of The Last Five Recessions. That Is An Understatement. Wall Street Indexes Predicted Nine Out Of The Last Five Recessions! And Its Mistakes Were Beauties.