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Profits Are The Lifeblood Of The Economic System, The Magic Elixir Upon Which Progress And All Good Things Depend Ultimately. But One Man's Lifeblood Is Another Man's Cancer.

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 Don't Care Very Much For The People Magazine Approach To Applied Economics.

In This Age Of Specialization, I Sometimes Think Of Myself As The Last 'generalist' In Economics, With Interests That Range From Mathematical Economics Down To Current Financial Journalism. My Real Interests Are Research And Teaching.

The Debate Can Be Put In The Form Of The Question: Resolved, That The Best Of Money Managers Cannot Be Demonstrated To Be Able To Deliver The Goods Of Superior Portfolio-selection Performance. Any Jury That Reviews The Evidence, And There Is A Great Deal Of Relevant Evidence, Must At Least Come Out With The Scottish Verdict: Superior Investment Performance Is Unproved.