Intelligent Investment Management …
is when an investor makes rational decisions based on fundamental principles, instead of making emotional decisions based on the daily news - and the hype and hope which accompany it.
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Ron's essays cover a large range of topics including the following:
Investment Philosophy
- Basic Financial Maxims I Want My Kids to Know
- How Much Money Are You Willing to Lose for a Theory?
- How to Choose a Money Manager
- How We Benefit From Free Trade
- Investing and Farming – Know the Climate
- Mom -The Squeeze on Your “Income” Will Continue
- One Family’s Perspective On the US Federal Budget
- Open Letter to My Congressman
- Personal Financial Maxims
- Problems with Investing for Income
- Prosperity
- Review of “What Works on Wall Street”
- Ron’s Reading List
- The Basics of Investing
- The Fundamentals of Life Insurance
- The Inflation Time Bomb
- The Investing Choices
- The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
- The “Fad,” Recession and Getting Back to “Normal”
- This is 20/20
- Thoughts on the Future
Investment Climate
- 1999 – 2001: The Fad Years (Some Call Them the “Bubble” Years)
- 2002-6: Back to Normal, a “Normal” We Haven’t Seen Since 1965
- And The Climate Is…
- Recessions:What Do They Look Like?
- The Frugal Consumer…Will It Last?
- The Signposts of Change: Economics, Rules, Markets
- Wake Up America – Houses Don’t Make You Money!
- What’s the New Normal? Economics, Rules, Markets
- Where to from Here?
- Why Interest Rates Won’t ‘Go Back Up’ Anytime Soon
- Why The Market Went Down
Investment Risk
- Are Stocks “Too High?”
- Beware of Good Yields
- Defusing the Inflation Time Bomb
- Diversification - Too Much of a Good Thing
- Foreign Investing
- The Game of the Stock Market Versus the Business of Investing
- What is Risk?
- What is Risk? Part II
- Why I Like Long-Term Treasury Rates
Economics & Politics
- Bailouts, Your Dollars, & the Whole Credit Mess
- Competition for the Consumer
- Consumer Spending
- Why Did the Fed Raise Short-Term Rates?
- Why I Like the Flat Tax
- Worker Capitalism Triumphs
Investment & Estate Planning
- Estate Planning for Generations
- Fund Your IRA Every Year or How to Retire Wealthy by Driving Used Cars
- Personal Finances II
Taxes & Government Spending
- Economics and Why Election 2000 Is Important
- Muhlenkamp’s Musings on Economics
- Social Security by the Numbers
- Social Security Revisited—A Plan to Fix It
- Taxes – Choose Your Poison: Old Tax Return vs. Proposed Tax Return
- The Trouble With Government Spending