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Why I don’t invest in gold

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on August 3, 2025August 3, 2025
  • Part 5: Asset Management

If the current gold bubble bursts, as the 1970s gold bubble burst, it might take decades for gold investors to recover their investment in real terms without any dividends or interest payments along the way.

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My thoughts on the Buffett Indicator – current Market Cap to GDP

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 23, 2025March 23, 2025
  • Part 5: Asset Management

The best cash flow measure is Warren Buffett’s Owner Earnings. If that is increasing faster than GDP, the fair value of companies will increase faster than GDP

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Sentiment and the four faces of risk

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on November 3, 2024November 5, 2024
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

Ironically, the four faces of risk reverse actual risk. Risk is perceived to be highest in bear markets; moderate in sideways markets; increasingly lower in bull markets; and, more or less ignored, in bubbles.

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The right stuff and successful investing

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on July 21, 2024July 21, 2024
  • Part 3: Thoughts for the Individual Investor

A lot of people talk about patience, discipline, and courage, but curiosity is one of the reasons great investors find the things they do, and it is also consistent with being a contrarian

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Why an all-stock approach to investing makes good sense

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 24, 2024March 24, 2024
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

Leaving moderate risk in the dust

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Disagreeing with Jeremy Grantham’s bubble call Part ll

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on September 17, 2023September 17, 2023
  • Part 5: Asset Management

Warren Buffett terminated his partnership, paid out his investors and went to cash. That’s the only time in his many decades of investing that he has taken such radical action.

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Disagreeing with Jeremy Grantham’s bubble call

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on September 4, 2022September 5, 2022
  • Part 5: Asset Management

Among other factors, indicators of extremes of euphoria seem much more important than price

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My thoughts about GMO’s ‘GROWTH BUBBLE’

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on October 17, 2021October 19, 2021
  • Part 5: Asset Management

Using trailing twelve months earnings that are impacted by a recession is a mistake

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My thoughts on asset allocation

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on August 22, 2021August 23, 2021
  • Part 5: Asset Management

They looked at the allocation between stocks, bonds and cash. They found that over 95 percent of the funds’ returns came from their asset allocation.

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Chart distortions that drive me crazy

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 7, 2021March 7, 2021
  • Part 5: Asset Management

Going parabolic and other lies

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