In this week’s Link Roundup you’ll find equal numbers of bloggers looking back admiringly on John Templeton’s legacy and those using his wisdom as a model for assessing our present situation and future trends. We particularly liked the Shareswatch article because it asked the same question we ask ourselves around here every day: I wonder what he would say [...]
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Posted in Business, Crisis, Economy, Investing, Markets, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on May 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Culture that Gave Rise to the Current Financial Crisis
Posted in Business, Crisis, Economy, Finance, Housing Market, Investing, Markets, Money, Recession, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street, tagged events, lecture, May 13 2009, Philadelphia on May 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Wednesday, May 13, 2009, the seventh annual John M. Templeton Jr. Lecture on Economic Liberties and the Constitution will discuss “The Culture that Gave Rise to the Current Financial Crisis.” This event is at 6:30 p.m. at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. John C. Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group and Chairman Emeritus [...]
John Templeton’s 1982 Prediction
Posted in Business, Crisis, Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Recession, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lauren Templeton, coauthor of Investing the Templeton Way, principal of Lauren Templeton Capital Management, LLC, and great niece of John Templeton, shares an anecdote from 1982 when John Templeton saw optimism despite growing pessimism surrounding the economy: In 1982, Uncle John made an appearance on the popular investing television show hosted by Louis Rukeyser called Wall [...]
Optimistic Pessimism: A Wave of Sentiment?
Posted in Business, Crisis, Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Money, Recession, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Several blogs last week mentioned John Templeton in relation to the current state of the economy. As we mentioned in a post earlier in April, “Maximum Pessimism: Are We There Yet?,” there is discussion in the economic community about whether the economy has hit rock-bottom and, to use Templeton’s famous term, reached the point of “maximum [...]
Templeton and the Auto Industry
Posted in Auto Industry, Business, Crisis, Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Money, News, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It has been a big news week for the American auto companies. With the restructuring of GM and the agreement between Chrysler and Fiat in the news, we have been keeping in mind some of John Templeton’s observations and investment strategies about the American auto industry. One situation that comes to mind is from the [...]
Gary Moore on John Templeton’s Legendary Long-run Performance
Posted in Business, Crisis, Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Money, Recession, Stock Market, Stocks, Uncategorized, Wall Street on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In past posts, I’ve gone out on a limb and suggested Sir John Templeton may have been taking a closer look at some high quality stocks since the market bottomed last October. I was pleased last week to read a report by Gary Motyl—the current Chief Investment Officer of the Templeton funds who was hired by [...]
John Templeton’s 2003 Prediction and Today’s Housing Market
Posted in Business, Crisis, Economy, Housing Market, Investing, Markets, Money, Recession, Uncategorized on April 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In an April 6, 2009, Wall Street Journal op ed titled “From Bubble to Depression,” Stephen Gjerstad and Vernon Smith argue that both The Great Depression and today’s recession were caused by enormous consumer debt, and most particularly mortgage debt. To quote: . . . the financial system has suffered a blow unlike anything since [...]
John Templeton and the Housing Market
Posted in Crisis, Economy, Finance, Housing Market, Investing, Markets, Money, Quotes, Recession, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on April 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, we were again reminded of John Templeton’s 2003 prediction about the then-looming economic crisis after reading this blog post. In 2003, when being interviewed by Robert J. Flaherty for Equities magazine, Templeton observed that the stock market is broken and remarked on debt accumulation and the inevitable housing decline: Sir John also had a few [...]
Recent Links on Buy Low, Sell High
Posted in Business, Crisis, Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Money, News, Recession, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago, several bloggers were buzzing about John Templeton’s investment strategy of buying low and selling high: http://www.mebanefaber.com/2009/03/08/is-it-time-to-do-a-templeton/ http://www.dailymarkets.com/stocks/2009/03/11/phoenix-strategy-update/ http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2009/04/discovering_value.html While we won’t endorse or comment on specific investments, it does appear to be an opportune time to learn more about Templeton’s investing strategy.
Leading Psychologists on Buy Low, Sell High
Posted in Business, Crisis, Economy, Investing, Markets, Money, Neuroeconomics, News, Quotes, Recession, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To better understand the psychology of our current economic times, especially in regard to the perspective of John Templeton, we posed the following question to three leading psychologists: One of Sir John Templeton’s most famous quotes is “Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria. The time [...]
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