Tag: GFC

• Get Paid to Take Risk

  

  Is the risk-reward trade-off broken? Historically smaller companies have higher stock price returns, but this relationship has faded since 2008. What happened and why aren’t investors being compensated for taking more risk? Table 1.1 shows how small-cap stocks have performed relative to large-cap stocks since the Great Financial Crisis in 2007-08. There is more volatility…

  Thomas Schleusener

  September 14, 2018

  Markets, Non-Fiction

  Asset Purchase Program, bonds, fed, federal reserve, financial crisis, GFC, large cap, QE, Returns, Risk-Reward, Size Premium, small cap, Small vs Large Cap, stocks, volatility

• Government vs. Free Market: Crashes of the Past 100 Years

  

  Were the most significant drops in financial markets a function of unstable free markets or government intervention? Nassim Taleb, author of bestseller The Black Swan, often speaks on the danger of putting abnormal events in tidy boxes.  Readers should be aware that there are many factors influencing markets at any given time, and by assigning…

  Thomas Schleusener

  September 11, 2018

  Markets, Non-Fiction

  1932, 1937, 1962, 1987, 2007, 2008, crisis, Dow Jones, financial crisis, GFC, Great Depression, Great Financial Crisis, Kennedy, Market Crashes, Recession, Stock Market Crashes, stocks