In October of 1987, the stock market took a tumble that left investors shell-shocked. In the wake of that meltdown, John Templeton appeared on a panel of experts on the television show Wall Street Week to share his insights on recent events. There are valuable lessons to be gleaned from this footage, so we’re very thankful to [...]
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New Video Links for Sir John Templeton on the 1987 Market Crash
Posted in Business, Crisis, Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Money, Recession, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on June 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips on John Templeton’s Economic Vices and Virtues, Part 2
Posted in Business, Economy, Finance, Markets, News, Recession, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips, coauthors of Investing the Templeton Way, will provide their analysis on John Templeton’s Buena Vista speech on the economic vices and virtues in upcoming posts. Please consider entering our contest on this topic for a chance to win $500. As we know, this behavior of utilizing debt to live beyond one’s [...]
A Year Later
Posted in Business, Crisis, Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Money, News, Philosophy, Quotes, Recession, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on July 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the death of Sir John Templeton. What a year it has been and how we wish he was here to comment on these turbulent economic times. Some of the major economic events that have occurred since Sir John’s passing include: A housing crisis The fall of banking giants Lehman [...]
Gary Moore on John Templeton’s Values (Part 2)
Posted in Business, Crisis, Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Philosophy, Recession, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In as series of two posts, Gary Moore reflects on the religious perspective John Templeton brought to the investing world and how it shaped his investing decisions. Similarly, Sir John utilized the Golden Rule as a guide to investing and life—he even wrote books about it. I can hear you protesting that the Golden Rule [...]
Gary Moore on John Templeton’s Values (Part 1)
Posted in Business, Crisis, Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Money, Philosophy, Recession, Stock Market, Stocks on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In as series of two posts, Gary Moore reflects on the religious perspective John Templeton brought to the investing world and how it shaped his investing decisions. Sir John Templeton thought that belief was crucial to his success as a money manager, businessman, father, and so on. Thirty years ago, in its November 27, 1978 [...]
Controlled Thinking in Business
Posted in Auto Industry, Business, Crisis, Economy, News, Recession, Templeton Plan on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To better understand the financial wisdom of John Templeton, we are discussing some of his twenty-one steps detailed in The Templeton Plan and pairing them with financial news. We are currently discussing Step 14: Controlling Your Thoughts for Effective Action. To relate the step, “Controlling Your Thoughts for Effective Action,” to today’s news, one only [...]
Templeton’s Philosophy
Posted in Business, Economy, Philosophy, Quotes, Recession, Templeton Plan on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is no doubt that at this point everyone has been affected by our current recession in some way. Between a bear market, the housing crash, and rising unemployment numbers, the Great Recession—as some are calling it—has prompted all of us to change our personal outlook. Just as John Templeton had the foresight to predict [...]
Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Posted in Business, Crisis, Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Money, Neuroeconomics, Recession, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on May 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One of John Templeton’s favorite books was Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, written in 1841. He remarks that Charles Mackay’s book can teach us “some important lessons that apply to investor behavior today.” In 1989, Templeton penned a new foreword for the book, applying its lessons to today’s investment world: Although he wrote [...]
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 [...]
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