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February 25, 2025

Investment Insight: Decoding A.I. and Generating Investment Ideas

Investment Insight: Decoding A.I. and Generating Investment Idea Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) refers to systems or machines designed to simulate human intelligence, enabling tasks like learning,

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January 10, 2025

Investment Insight: The 2025 Visual Guide to the Markets

Investment Insight: The 2025 Visual Guide to the Markets 2024 was a year for the history books. Donald Trump was re-elected after two assassination attempts.

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October 30, 2024

Investment Insight: Final Thoughts on the 2024 Election

With the 2024 Election rapidly approaching, we thought a brief update to remind friends of The Prudent Speculator to look far down the path would

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September 20, 2024

Investment Insight: Consider Real Estate in Your Allocation

John and Michael discuss the place of real estate in an asset allocation, explored market dynamics and highlighted potential Value-oriented opportunities. We recently hosted a

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July 19, 2024

Understanding the CAPE Ratio (aka the Shiller P/E)

The CAPE ratio is a valuation measure that is calculated using a rolling ten-year average of the real earnings per share (EPS) and price for

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June 30, 2024

Investment Insight: 7 Tax Tips to Keep Money in Your Pocket in 2024

  The first edition of The Prudent Speculator was published on March 10, 1977, and we have not wavered in our commitment to Value investing,

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June 25, 2024

Investment Insight: Small Cap Stocks Should Be In Your Portfolio

With Small Cap stocks stuck in neutral this year from a performance standpoint, we thought it was worthwhile to refresh last year’s report on this

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June 10, 2024

Investment Insight: Cryptocurrency Investing

  “I think it is rat poison!” Not mincing any words on May 6, 2013, when asked what he thought about Bitcoin on Fox Business

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May 1, 2024

9 Questions Your Financial Plan Should Answer

Financial planning is the foundation for successful wealth creation. It is an involved process that begins with establishing goals and objectives, which mix short- and

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March 20, 2024

Investment Insight: Trendy Investing – The Magnificent 7 Stocks

We can’t remember a day recently that skipped some mention of the “Magnificent 7,” a nickname for the seven stocks in the S&P 500 index

2024 Visual Guide to the Markets

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January 19, 2024

Investment Insight: 2024 Visual Guide to the Markets

  Inflation, rising interest rates and economic worries were top of mind heading into 2023, causing many folks to remain on the market’s sidelines. The

2024 Stock Market Outlook

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January 3, 2024

You’re Invited! Webinar: 2024 Stock Market Outlook

Webinar: Where to Invest – 2024 Stock Market Outlook. In our latest Special Report, 2024 Stock Market Outlook, we detail seven themes with more than

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October 6, 2023

Special Report: Small Cap Stocks Offer Big Opportunities

We wrote a pair of Special Reports (report one, report two) on the topic of small- and mid-sized company stocks in 2022 and thought a

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September 7, 2023

Special Report: To Retire a Millionaire, Exercise Patience

The Prudent Speculator, a value-oriented investment newsletter we’ve published continuously since March 1977, has been guided–through thick and thin–by three core tenets: patience, selection and

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August 15, 2023

Special Report: Investing in Value Stocks: 24 Stock Picks

  Since 1977, The Prudent Speculator has followed an approach to investing that focuses on broadly diversified investments in undervalued stocks for their long-term appreciation