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The Problem Is No Longer That With Every Pair Of Hands That Comes Into The World There Comes A Hungry Stomach. Rather It Is That, Attached To Those Hands Are Sharp Elbows.

There Is Something In People; You Might Even Call It A Little Bit Of A Gambling Instinct… I Tell People Investing Should Be Dull. It Shouldn't Be Exciting. Investing Should Be More Like Watching Paint Dry Or Watching Grass Grow. If You Want Excitement, Take $800 And Go To Las Vegas.

Still, I Figure We Shouldn't' Discourage Fans Of Actively Managed Funds. With All Their Buying And Selling, Active Investors Ensure The Market Is Reasonably Efficient. That Makes It Possible For The Rest Of Us To Do The Sensible Thing, Which Is To Index. Want To Join Me In This Parasitic Behavior? To Build A Well-diversified Portfolio, You Might Stash 70 Percent Of Your Stock Portfolio Into A Wilshire 5000-index Fund And The Remaining 30 Percent In An International-index Fund.

Even If This Advice To Portfolio Decision Makers To Drop Dead Is Good Advice, It Obviously Is Not Counsel That Will Be Eagerly Followed. Few People Will Commit Suicide Without A Push. And Fewer Still Will Pay Good Money To Be Told To Do What Is Against Human Nature And Self-interest To Do.

Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa. Mit And Wharton And University Of Chicago Created The Financial Engineering Instruments, Which, Like Samson And Delilah, Blinded Every Ceo. They Didn't Realize The Kind Of Leverage They Were Doing And They Didn't Understand When They Were Really Creating A Real Profit Or A Fictitious One.