Year 2024
PMA highlights articles that we think provide useful insights into finance, business, the economy and current events. Select from those listed to read on-line.
July
Posted on July 13, 2024Roger Federer vs. the Stock Market
Ben Carlson, A Wealth of Common Sense
US Stocks Beat Predictions Over the Past Decade. Can They Do It Again?
John Rekenthaler, Morningstar
Global Diversification Still Requires International Securities
Wes Crill, PhD, Dimensional
Why Concentrated Stock Positions Are A ‘Loser’s Game’
Larry, Swedroe, Financial Advisor
June
Posted on June 6, 2024Johan Norberg’s Plan to Save the World Through Capitalism
Laurence B. Siegel, VettaFi Advisor Perspectives
The Indispensability of Risk
Howard Marks, Oaktree Capital Management
The Perils of the Fed’s Vast Bond Holdings
Jeff Sommer, The New York Times
Meet Salim Ramji, Who Is Going to Oversee the Retirement Assets of Tens of Millions of Americans
Jack Pitcher, The Wall Street Journal
May
Posted on May 9, 2024America’s Economy Is No. 1. That Means Trouble.
Greg Ip, The Wall Street Journal
Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment?
Melissa Heikkilä, MIT Technology Review
Everything is Obvious
Joe Wiggins, Behavioural Investment
Daniel Kahneman Changed How We Think About Human Nature
Daniel Read, RealClearScience
The Rewarding Distribution of US Stock Market Returns
Dimensional
April
Posted on April 10, 2024The Fed’s Conundrum: Interest Rates Are Both Too High—and Too Low
Justin Lahart, The Wall Street Journal
Rogoff Says Biden, Trump Favor ‘Blowing Up’ U.S. Debt
Christopher Anstey, Financial Advisor
Inside the Operating Room: Doctors Test a Revolutionary Brain-Computer Implant
Jo Craven McGinty, The Wall Street Journal
Japanese Lessons
David Kelly, Notes on the Week Ahead
March
Posted on March 5, 2024A $1 Trillion Conundrum: The U.S. Government’s Mounting Debt Bill
Eric Wallerstein, The Wall Street Journal
Investors Are Almost Always Wrong About the Fed
Eric Wallerstein, The Wall Street Journal
Macro is Hard
Ben Carlson, A Wealth of Common Sense
February
Posted on February 8, 2024From downturn to upswing: Strong fourth-quarter returns in stocks and bonds
Francis M. Kinniry Jr., CFA, Ted Dinucci, CFA and Chris Tidmore, CFA, Vanguard
Conference Roundup: The End of the Dollar, or Not
Laurence B. Siegel, AJO Vista
El-Erian Says It’s Too Soon for Fed to Declare Inflation Victory
The Wealth Advisor
January
Posted on January 1, 2024Hopescrolling: 52 fact-based optimistic news from every week in 2023
Warp News
Higher Interest Rates Are Here to Stay
Kenneth Rogoff, Project Syndicate
2023: the year of sticker shock
Justin Klawans, The Week
The Office Market Had It Hard in 2023. Next Year Looks Worse.
Peter Grant, The Wall Street Journal
How Were So Many Economists So Wrong About the Recession?
Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg