This week in Exponential Investor...

Find out all the top news from Sam and the team

Find out all the top news from Sam and the team

 

This week's recommendations: • Am I so wrong about "Taproot"?   • Re-thinking what matters to investors   • The ultimate 20-year shopping list   • Not connected with us on Facebook yet?  • Investors are seeing ghosts around every corner  • Podcast: "Have you got a couple of joints in your pocket?"

Am I so wrong about "Taproot"?   I got an interesting reader email passed on to me from our customer services team last Friday.   Part of it simply said, "why was Sam so wrong about Taproot?"   I found this to be interesting because I was somewhat confounded by the question. Read more here

Re-thinking what matters to investors   All sorts of news can move markets.   A company's financial results, for example. Or a government's budget announcement.   But sometimes, non-financial news can have an impact, too.   When US markets opened yesterday, one company's value rose by $81.65 million… all because a football manager was sacked. Read more here

The ultimate 20-year shopping list   Shouldn't your portfolio be healthier than ever? Shouldn't you be rich like everyone else right now?   That's what the financial media seems to be saying.   The US markets in particular just keep going onwards and upwards.   The Nasdaq Composite hit another all-time high last week. There's just no stopping that index, and everyone is getting rich.   Right?   Wrong! Read more here

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Investors are seeing ghosts around every corner  Once a leveraged and wildly bullish crowd gets the smallest inkling to sell, the challenging question becomes – "to whom?"   Three things have scared me recently:   John Hussman's interim update Man Group's prediction of a market shock Rates in a trap – debt vs inflation. ​​​​​​​  The first piece of news that set me on edge was an interim update published by the brilliant, analytical, patient (and successful) John Hussman, an acclaimed American philanthropist and hedge fund manager. Read more here

Podcast: "Have you got a couple of joints in your pocket?"   Things in Germany are about to change, quite dramatically.   The Social Democrats (party colour: red), the Liberals (party colour: yellow) and the Greens (party colour: you know already) have agreed to form a "traffic light" coalition government and to put Olaf Scholz in charge as Chancellor.    In the world outside Germany, it's therefore auf Wiedersehen to Angela Merkel and Hallo to Olaf Scholz. Read more here

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