by Gary Gordon | Sep 28, 2022
Investors have an ability to delude themselves for extraordinary lengths of time. For instance, the worst annual performance for investment grade corporate bonds occurred in 2018. It was a miniscule -3.8% loss for IG corporates (via LQD). Here in 2022? IG corporates...
by Gary Gordon | Sep 22, 2022
Those who refuse to give up the idea that the stock bubble has burst, or refuse to consider that the market will drop further, ignore stock valuations. Consider the popular earnings-based and book-based metrics. In what world has the 21% decline from the top provided...
by Gary Gordon | Sep 15, 2022
A few weeks ago, most pundits in the financial media had declared that the bear market was over. If nothing else, they insisted, we had already seen the bearish lows. They were wrong about the bear market being over. And they are almost certain to be wrong about the...
by Gary Gordon | Sep 9, 2022
At the start of 2022, the stock market had been sitting atop its highest valuation extremes ever. In fact, our modern-day circumstance rivaled 1929’s super-bubble as well the dot-com hysteria in 2000. By June of this year, the S&P 500 had descended as much...
by Gary Gordon | Aug 31, 2022
First things first. Is real estate experiencing a housing bubble? Look no further than how much one would need to pay in rent to be equivalent to his/her current cost of home-ownership. That is what Owner’s Equivalent of Rent (OER) tells us. When the spread...
