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He looked at the components of the MSCI World stock market index over 12 months and weighted returns by average market capitalization, both now and when the market peaked in 2000. The current market i
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(Bloomberg Opinion) -- In case it wasn’t obvious before the Federal Reserve’s January meeting on Wednesday, it should be crystal clear now: The central bank is obsessed with inflation. One of the only
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One of the truisms of modern life is that nobody has any time. Everybody is busy, burned out, swamped, overwhelmed . So let’s try a simple thought experiment. Imagine that you came into possession of
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Strategies Forget Stock Market Forecasts. They’re Less Than Worthless. Wall Street strategists are issuing predictions for 2020. Ignore them, our columnist says, and invest with cheap, diversified ind
There are as many investment strategies as there are investment opportunities. Some are good; many are terrible. Here’s the one that I lean on the most when I’m looking for low risk and above average
January 2016 Since the 1970s, economic inequality in the US has increaseddramatically. And in particular, the rich have gotten a lot richer.Nearly everyone who writes about the topic says that economi
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Published 21 November 2019 comments Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images By Andrew Walker BBC World Service economics correspondent A leading international economic organisation has war
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