Parents of young children, and pet owners, often start to worry when they have been enjoying an unusually long period of silence. Investors are experiencing a similar sensation. Markets seem calm, wit

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Did you sell in May and go away this year? I do hope not, because we have often pointed out that seasonal investing is nonsense. The notion that stocks are weaker between May and September is thought

Since World War II, the two landmark events in the evolution of money were Bretton Woods in 1944, when the dollar became the de facto global reserve currency, and then the Nixon Shock of 1971, when th