Posts Tagged ‘ Rate Of Return ’

What a Little-Known Market Tool Is Telling Us About U.S. Stocks in 2012

January 11, 2012

If you're a longtime investor, you're no doubt familiar with the Price/Earnings (P/E) ratio - a common measure for valuing the stock market.

But you may not be as familiar with the more-obscure Earnings/Price (E/P) ratio, which some experts refer to as the "earnings yield" on stocks.

If you're...
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The Future of the Euro: Why Europe’s Key Currency is Doomed

By Jack Barnes

May 11, 2011

The Future of the Euro: Why Europe’s Key Currency is Doomed

The Eurozone project has seen better days, which is why the future of the euro isn't a bright one.

In fact, as all the latest speculation about Greece either abandoning the euro currency - or being booted out of the Eurozone outright - is demonstrating, "the...
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The Exponentiality of Municipal Costs (and Some Advice for Endowments and Foundations)

By Frederick J. Sheehan

March 15, 2011

The word in social media is “exponentiality” of growth. Webster’s, American Heritage, and Microsoft Word do not acknowledge it, I don’t know how to spell it, but this path-breaking discussion of rising municipal costs deserves a word from the future. The pension costs of states and municipalities in years hence are often stated in...
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Blast From the Past

By Lee Adler

February 28, 2009

I was checking back over some things I had written some years ago in a “How’m I doin’?” exercise and I came across this. I’ll follow this up in a “where are we now” analysis in the Professional Edition Long Term Update to be posted later this weekend. Long Term- Stocks Are a Lousy...
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