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 [...]
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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 »
John Templeton and Philanthropy
Posted in Finance, Money, Philanthropy, Recession on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is no doubt that John Templeton left a lasting legacy in the financial world, as we have and will continue to highlight here. But he also focused a large part of his life on philanthropy. In a recent post on his blog, author and management expert Ken Blanchard commented on John Templeton’s perspective on philanthropy, [...]
Maximum Pessimism: Are We There Yet?
Posted in Economy, Investing, News, Recession, tagged economic indicators, Krugman, Maximum Pessimism, New York Times, Op-Ed on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In last Friday’s New York Times, columnist Paul Krugman made some interesting points about the momentum of the current economy. Are things headed up? Or do we still have some painful times ahead of us? To followers of Sir John’s investment strategy, identifying whether or not you have reached the point of “maximum pessimism” is of [...]
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 [...]
Gary Moore on Buy Low, Sell High
Posted in Crisis, Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Money, News, Recession, Stock Market, Stocks, Uncategorized, Wall Street on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We asked a few of Sir John’s family members and friends to share their perspectives on Sir John’s rule of “Buy Low, Sell High.” Gary Moore, author of Faithful Finances and founder of Gary Moore and Company weighs in: One of the terribly important things to remember about Sir John’s seemingly optimistic opinion that stocks always [...]
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