Criteria to be Met Before Investing in Financial Markets

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Oct 10, 2011 in Blog | 5 comments   Over the last many days stock markets around the world have rallied considerably.  The question is: what to make of this buying activity?  In other words, have the storm clouds passed and now a good time to invest? What is needed to answer these questions are some objective criteria.  Namely: The U.S. sovereign debt crisis triggered a huge market sell off mid-summer.  Has there been...
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What is Going On in the Financial Markets?

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Oct 2, 2011 in Blog, Where Markets Fail | 10 comments The only question that matters: what is going on in the financial markets right now?  Here’s my attempt at an answer. Usually in investing you can trust the fundamentals that underlie the economic performance of businesses to ultimately win the day.  Warren Buffett says it this way: in the short run the stock market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.  In...
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1 October 2011: Jason Apollo Voss Interviewed for Psych Central

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Oct 1, 2011 in News & Events | 0 comments 1 October, 2011: I am happy to announce that I was interviewed by PsychCentral’s Associate Editor, Therese J. Borchard talking about The Intuitive Investor: A Radical Guide for Manifesting Wealth.  Thanks to both Psych Central and Ms. Borchard for their interest. Jason
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Is the European Sovereign Debt Crisis Behind Us?

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Sep 30, 2011 in Blog | 1 comment   The multi-trillion dollar question of the moment: is the European sovereign debt crisis behind us?  My answer is, unfortunately, no. What I feel positive about: The crisis finally has the attention of much of the financial world and many of the First World’s governments.  This is distinctly different than the situation that has come before now.  Before now the Europeans tried to...
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Amount of European Bailout Fund About Right Finally

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Sep 26, 2011 in Blog | 2 comments Yes, it has been awhile.  Ironically I am even more engrossed in the goings on of the market with my new position at CFA Institute.  But, alas, time has been scarce.  I wanted to highlight for everyone that the Europeans are finally talking (after two years of dragging their feet) about the correct amount of money to fund their bailout. The most persistent fears, of course, are that Greece will...
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15 September 2011: Jason Apollo Voss Journal of Private Equity Article

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Sep 15, 2011 in News & Events | 0 comments In February 2011 I wrote an article for the Journal of Private Equity entitled, “The Fallacy of Price/Earnings to Growth Ratios” that has just appeared in their Fall 2011 issue.  In order to read the piece you must be a subscriber.  If you would like similar content I suggest taking a look at this piece I wrote for this very blog at the beginning of February 2011 that is similar in...
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Lack of Growth Opportunities Remains THE Big Issue

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Sep 2, 2011 in Blog | 2 comments   Whew!  My wife Dawn and I have made the cross country trek from Santa Fe, New Mexico to New York City and I begin my new responsibilities as a Content Director at the CFA Institute on Tuesday.  And, more importantly, Verizon, sidelined by a workers strike, has finally installed super fast fiber optic Internet in our apartment.  Fantastic!  So back to the blog… Today I wanted to...
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