Occam’s – Inflation

Inflation is one of the economic topics that you can count on breaking into the public consciousness regularly. It’s hard not to notice that prices go up over time, and now is one of those times that inflation has come to the fore. We’ve had incredibly low levels of inflation for a while now, and…

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What Happened With GameStop?

What Happened with GameStop

It’s a bit of an understatement to say that GameStop has been in the news lately. There are a lot of people opining about what is going on, but we want to cut through that and look at what actually happened (we look at what it all means in another article. So what actually happened,…

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What Does the GameStop Kerfuffle Mean?

GME and WallStreetBets

It’s been a pretty wild ride with GameStop. But while there has been a lot happening, does it actually mean much? We’ve examined the details of what happened elsewhere, so I’m going to focus on some of the bigger questions that this whole affair raises, and specifically how this all impacts long-term investors. So let’s…

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Understanding Bond Returns

Stocks get all the attention. They have big, flashy returns, there’s always something happening, and you can use them to tell pretty much any story you want about the markets. Bonds may not be as flashy, but they form the bedrock of your portfolio. They are the anchor that keeps your investments grounded while your stocks…

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Occam’s – Is the Value Premium Pining for the Fjords?

There’s no magic formula for investing. The financial markets seem to take some sort of cosmic joy in bringing people back down to Earth. And it’s value investing’s turn – in fact, it’s been value investing’s turn for a while now. To put it mildly, this has been a rough decade and a half for…

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