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Chief Investment Strategist / Chief Economist of RIA Advisors
Lance Roberts is the Chief Investment Strategist, Chief Economist and member of the investment committee for RIA Advisors. His primary focuses are macro trends, financial, fundamental and technical analysis of the markets and equities, credit markets, ...more

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Stocks – The Great "Wealth" Equalizer?
The stock market is not, and never has been, the “solution” to building wealth. If you look around the world, there might be a very small handful that have actually built a fortune by investing alone. That is the exception, not the rule.
Is Another Lost Decade Ahead?
Markets are not cheap by any measure. If earnings growth continues to wane, or interest rates rise, the bull market thesis will collapse as "expectations" collide with "reality."
Plan For The Worst
One of the biggest mistakes that people make is assuming markets will grow at a consistent rate over the given time frame to retirement. There is a massive difference between compounded returns and real returns.
Technically Speaking: Visualizing 10-Reasons For Caution
There seems to be absolutely nothing that can derail the current bull market.
13-Truths About How Money Really Works
Financial security is not only about investing correctly, but also the things that are important to long-term capital preservation.
Breaking Bull (Market)
On a very short-term basis the market currently remains on a “buy signal,” however, the weakness of the market over the last couple of days has led to some deterioration. Furthermore, the market is struggling with recent resistance levels.
Weekend Reading: Vacation Head
While it is clear the bullish trend is currently intact, which suggests the markets could indeed rise further, the deviation from the 1-year moving average is pushing more historical extremes.
Is This The Bubble?
The reason that investors always fail to recognize the major turning points in the markets is because they allow emotional “greed” to keep them looking backward rather than forward.
Technically Speaking: I Bought It For The Dividend
When it comes to dividend yielding stocks, the psychology is no different – a 3-5% yield and a 30-50% loss of capital are two very different issues.
How Big Of A Deleveraging Are We Talking About?
One of the primary problems, not only in the U.S., but globally, is that government spending has shifted away from productive investments that create jobs to primarily social welfare and debt service which has a negative rate of return.
Analyzing The Bull Market Thesis - Saturday, July 21
The bulls currently have the “wind at their backs” as the continued “hope” the Trump administration will foster an age of deregulation, infrastructure spending and tax cuts which will boost corporate earnings in the future.
Weekend Reading: Charge Of The Light Brigade
The current run-up in stocks will end very much the same as they always have with investors “annihilated by their own rashness and the brutality of a ferocious enemy.”
Why Wage Growth Will Remain Elusive
Working more and earning less. That is struggle faced by the average American today as each dollar buys less than it did before.
Fundamentally Speaking: Earnings At Risk
There is no arguing corporate profitability improved in the first quarter as oil prices recovered. The recovery in oil prices specifically helped sectors tied to the commodity such as Energy, Basic Materials, and Industrials.
People Buy Payments & Why Rates Can’t Rise
Over the last 30-years, a big driver of home prices has been the unabated decline of interest rates. When declining interest rates were combined with lax lending standards – home prices soared off the chart.
Bulls Run On Yellen’s Easy Money
When Yellen said that interest rates would not have to rise much further, the markets translated it to “lower interest rates for longer,” confirming the Federal Reserve will remain “highly accommodative” to the markets so, therefore, “buy stocks.”
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