As we head into Father's Day weekend, here is SMI's latest Money Roundup.
Lost decades are even rarer than you think (Nick Maggiulli, Of Dollars and Data). If you invest using a dollar-cost-averaging approach, you're highly unlikely to lose purchasing power over a 10-year period.
Visualized: Reshoring investments in the U.S. have surged to $1.7T (Visual Capitalist). Bringing back "Made in America."
Equity analysts are over liberation day tariffs (Jonathan Levin, Bloomberg via Financial Advisor). "Analysts are no more clairvoyant than anyone else, and their guesstimates about the macro backdrop are often downstream of the highly imperfect forecasts put out by their in-house economists and strategists."
Letter to a young investor #12: The powerful thinking skill nobody ever taught you (Safal Niveshak). We're so conditioned to look for secrets to success that we forget how powerful it is to simply avoid doing things that are stupid.
Schwab Asset Management reduces fees on four equity index ETFs and announces mutual fund share splits (Schwab news release). Some of the affected funds are occasionally suggested as alternatives within DAA and Fund Upgrading.
The trick to enjoying a vacation (and investing successfully) (Mike Piper, Oblivious Investor). No matter what wonderful vacation you pick, countless other options may have been better. That's just how it works.
The upside of gratitude (Ben Carlson, A Wealth of Common Sense). In addition to thanking God, don't fail to express your gratitude to others.
Sen. Mike Lee proposes constitutional amendment to oust Congress when deficit is too high (American Greatness). The idea originally came — probably tongue-in-cheek — from Warren Buffett.
How my dad taught me the compounding returns of fatherhood (David Booth, Kiplinger). "Every bedtime story, every patient explanation, every small act of love — they add up over decades to contribute to who our children become."
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