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<\/a><\/p>\nThe theory is that money is now pouring into stocks from money on the \u00a0sidelines and from bonds — bond funds are cratering, many at their lowest point in a couple of years.<\/p>\n
I don’t believe gold’s long surge has ended. It’s taking a little breather.<\/p>\n
You can see the recent surge in stocks like Verizon (VZ), at&t (T), and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ). VZ and T went ex-dividend today, so will fall a little.<\/p>\n
Why bother picking stocks?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Dub Lowe, a reader, has done well with five Vanguard index funds.<\/span><\/p>\n 1. VITPX- Vanguard Total Stock Market.<\/p>\n 2. VIMAX-Vanguard Mid Cap Admiral shares<\/p>\n 3. VTSAX-Vanguard Total Stock Market Admiral shares<\/p>\n 4. VFIAX-Vanguard 500 Index Fund Admiral shares<\/p>\n 5. VHGEX-Vanguard Global Equity Fund<\/p>\n Here’s VIMAX over the past ten years. You’d have done well, or poorly depending on when you bought.<\/span><\/p>\n My 15% stop loss rule and my 15% uptick get-back-in rule would have worked well. Sticking around may not have worked so well.<\/span><\/p>\n Wrongology, the Video Firefox, the browser, has suddenly gotten very slow.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n I don’t know why. I switched to Google Chrome<\/em> to write this column. It’s much faster — today.<\/span><\/p>\n THE FOLLOWING TWO “JOKES” WILL OFFEND. DO NOT READ IF YOU DON’T WANT TO BE OFFENDED.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In the south — part 1.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The Redneck went to the hospital As his wife was having a baby.<\/p>\n Upon arriving, The Nurse says “Congratulations, Your wife has had quints, five big baby boys.”<\/p>\n The Redneck says, “I’m not surprised, I have a penis on me like a chimney.”<\/p>\n The nurse replies, “You might want to consider getting it cleaned, The babies are all black.”<\/p>\n In the south — part 2. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n How Do You Define Handsome?<\/p>\n A test at a Durham City High school in North Carolina, required students to use “handsome” in a sentence.<\/p>\n A girl named Lateshia wrote “Sometimes when I be suckin’ Jamal’s snake, my jaw gets sore and I hafta use my handsome.”<\/p>\n The quality of our educational system sometimes brings a tear to your eye.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\n Kathryn Schultz wrote a popular book called \u00a0“Wrongology”. Here’s her talk from a conference called <\/span><\/span><\/strong>PopTech<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0Click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n