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    Bond Duration, Fed Rate, and Valuation Change
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    Bond Duration, Fed Rate, and Valuation Change

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    Longer duration 6.8 years resulted in a 12.7% loss of principal, significantly greater than the incremental gain due to interest earned (2%). A bad trade-off.

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    Bitcoin, should it be in your portfolio?
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    Bitcoin, should it be in your portfolio?

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    Updated Dec 19, 2022. Bitcoin trades at $16,700., down from $60,000 in early 2021.

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    Grand Pursuit by Sylvia Naser
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    Grand Pursuit by Sylvia Naser

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    Central banks did not originate the economic boom-or-bust cycle.

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    $100,000 in the Stock Market According to Monte Carlo
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    $100,000 in the Stock Market According to Monte Carlo

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    A Monte Carlo simulation shows that after 10 years, $100,000 in the stock market could be as little as $51,000 or as much as $500,000.

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    Exxon Profit Per Gallon
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    Exxon Profit Per Gallon

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    Exxon averages $0.85 profit per gallon! Almost one-third of the pump price.

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    Asset Allocation Books
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    "As we serve our own interests, the value of the world's economy increases." That sentence has constraints that are ignored.

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