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I have been warned that all press releases should be capped at 400 words maximum. I was told to say how my life experiences provided the material that would interest anybody in reading the book. The problem is that I could not reduce the text to under 650 words. Now

November 17, 2023 The UK Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has said the economy is in recession, predicting the economy to contract by 1.4% in 2023 after 4.2% growth this year. The OBR sees average inflation at 9.1% this year, falling to 7.4% in 2023. So much for “transitory” inflation and economic

November 15, 2022 This article should wake up investors. https://www.investmentnews.com/sec-collects-record-penalties-in-fy-2022-enforcement-actions-229214 As long as we must live with the Securities Act of 1933 and the related ones that followed in 1934 and 1940, there is no stopping fraud in the capital markets. I could write books, but nobody in Washington or

November 15, 2022 Word-of-Mouth Marketing As my new book, Stock Market Literacy is presently in production, I am considering marketing. The best marketing, of course, is word-of-mouth. This is a 616-page eBook that I proudly present as the result of over 3,000 hours of writing and editing and the culmination

October 26, 2022 I want to read only facts and probabilities in one report. Because the rest of today’s report lends itself to radical narratives that self-interested parties promote, I would hope to read their submission of possibilities and their plan in a separate statement that I would quickly dismiss.

October 20, 2022 Rate increases by the Bank of England are killing UK pensions. So the government under PM Truss decided on a compensatory fiscal policy to radically cut taxes. Then her Finance Minister says the budget can’t allow her to do that. It’s a matter of who goes bankrupt

 October 18, 2022, I have noted that the financial services industry has been trying to kill value investing for years. They have continually dismissed Warren Buffett and similar other known value investors. They have turned the public to ETFs, easily controlled by narratives since traders have no idea of underlying fundamentals.

September 27, 2022 From Bloomberg today: In the short term, BlackRock is underweight developed-market equities, and is favoring credit. Investors should “shun most stocks.” BlackRock Investment Institute strategists including Jean BoivinandWei Li wrote “We don’t see a ‘soft landing’. That means more volatility and pressure on risk assets.” Now that BlackRock has lost over 1.3

September 21, 2022 This otherwise well-written article by Ken Sweet, AP Business Writer, appears to show bankers speaking on behalf of consumers and independent investors. How dare they. Bank CEOs warn of ‘daunting’ challenges from inflation WASHINGTON (AP) — In what has become an annual ritual, the CEOs of the

September 6, 2022 Good Evening, Bill Today, Strive sent our first shareholder letter to Chevron. We call on Chevron to liberate itself from constraints imposed by its ESG-promoting “shareholders” and to focus exclusively on maximizing long run value for the company’s ultimate owners. Read the full letter here or below.