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The Bond Buyer of Last Resort - As Seen on Forbes.com, CNBC.com, MSNBC.com

"Capitalism is the best economic system ever devised but as Pimco's legendary Bill Gross points out it has a huge flaw: it is inherently unstable." 
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Horsesmouth: Investing Against the Herd

"Isn't it frustrating to have a constant stream of 'experts' telling you that an important part of what you do is basically pointless or, even worse, exploitative?"
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Horsesmouth: Investing in Bear Markets

"Bad market pass - and usually become really good markets. History has proven that time and time again. The key is to convince clients to maintain and continue investing in equities that will reward them for hanging tough." 
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LEGG Mason Capital Management: Mauboussin on Strategy

"You see it all the time: a baseball fan’s mood rises or falls based on a ten-game stretch in a long season; an investment manager is heralded or derided for a quarter’s results; investors dump, or euphorically buy, a stock after an earnings release. These scenarios share a common feature—a heavy focus on short-term results." 
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Investors Insight -Outside the Box

"Worldcom implosion? Peanuts. Enron scandal? Just a rounding error. Lucent meltdown? Chump change. When it comes to investor losses – as painful as the aforehand were – these events pale in comparison to the whopper of them all: wrong way investing with mutual funds." 
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New York Times - See How the Money Flows

“'What’s happening is that the average mutual fund investor is obviously making the buy decision and sell decision at the wrong time,' said David Hay, chief investment officer of Evergreen Capital Management in Bellevue, Wash." 
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Value Investor Insight - In Search of investment nirvana

"We have a big-picture view of the world and then we try to get good investment ideas that fit into that view.” 
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SmartMoney.com - What Now for the Dow

"All eyes are certainly on the Dow right now, but investors shouldn’t be under the impression that all 30 of its component stocks are on a tear." 
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Horsesmouth: What the Fed Should Do Now

"The Fed should aggressively acquire longer-term investment-grade bonds and preferred stocks on the open market to squash the mother of all margin calls." 
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