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How to Invest During a Recession

February 24, 2009
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Today I’m pulling an article out of the Cabot Wealth Advisory archives that answers a question that was asked several times on the survey: How do you invest during a recession? Timothy Lutts wrote an excellent piece about this last January, yes a whole 13 months ago (long before anyone officially declared that we are in a recession), and I dug it out to share with you again here. “Recessions, defined technically as two or more successive quarters of negative real economic growth, and officially (by the National Bureau of Economic Research) as “a significant decline in economic activity...

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25 Investing Rules, Tips and Books

February 16, 2009
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By now you may have heard of the “25 Random Things” phenomenon that has swept Facebook and been written about in The News York Times, CNN and the Wall Street Journal. The idea is not new; it takes a page from the old chain letters that circulated on the Internet in its early days, but it has really taken off. The concept is that your friends write 25 things about themselves that they then send to you in hope of learning 25 things about you. Some have used this as a forum to spill their guts, while others have...

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Control Risk to Build a Solid Growth Portfolio

February 12, 2009
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With pressure building underground, there hasn’t been a real breakout to the upside by U.S. markets. The Nasdaq has put in some nice gains; its chart looks like it wants to build a cup that began its left side on January 6 when the Index topped at 1,666. But whether it happens this week or this month or a few months from now, the stock market will be coming back. It’s the only thing about the stock market that I’m willing to predict. It always does. Always. So, as we’ve said here a dozen times or more, you should...

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Dollar Tree: Not Sexy but Still Attractive

February 5, 2009
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Dollar Tree: Not Sexy but Still Attractive

Though last month was the worst January on record, not much has changed in terms of the market’s overall stance–the bulls are not in control, but the selling pressures, while gradually picking up, are not anywhere as intense as they were most of last fall.  So a potential bottom-building process continues. And much of the market’s potential leadership remains the same–education, biotech and now some precious metal stocks are hanging in there well.  But instead of harping on another stock from one of those groups, I thought I’d mention a slow, steady grower that’s been acting superbly in recent...

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