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Rob Bennett’s A Rich Life blog aims to put the “personal” back into “personal finance” - he focuses on the role played by emotion in saving and investing decisions. Rob developed the Passion Saving approach to money management; Passion Savers save not to finance their old-age retirements but to enjoy more freedom and opportunity in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s - because they pursue saving goals over which they feel a more intense personal concern, they are more motivated to save effectively. He also developed the Valuation-Informed Indexing investing strategy, a strategy that combines the most powerful insights of Vanguard Founder John Bogle and Yale Professsor Robert Shiller in a simple approach offering higher returns at greatly diminished risk. Tom Gardner, co-founder of the Motley Fool web site, said of Rob’s work: “The elegant simplicty of his ideas warms the heart and startles the brain.”

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More Thinking About Market Timing Leads to More Thinking About Market Timing

Most people put the market timing concept in a box. Most don’t think it’s a good thing. But even those … Read more

Irrational Exuberance Is Like Deficit Spending, Only Worse

I have been a journalist for my entire working life. But I changed the subject that I cover about halfway … Read more

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Shiller’s Research Findings Are Both Amazing and Completely Unremarkable

Robert Shiller’s Nobel-prize-winning research findings are amazing. He showed that valuations affect long-term returns. That means that stock investing risk … Read more

Shiller’s Book Title Does Not Have An Exclamation Point At The End

Irrational exuberance – it’s a bad thing. Shiller’s book title does not have an exclamation point at the end. It’s … Read more

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It Is a Confounding Reality That Stock Prices Revert to the Mean

It’s not just Robert Shiller who says that stock prices revert to the mean. John Bogle said that in his … Read more

It Is Irresponsible for Someone Who Has Doubts About Buy-and-Hold Not to Mention Those Doubts

People have doubts about Buy-and-Hold. LOTS of people have doubts. But you don’t hear them express them very often. If … Read more

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Why Stock Investing Is So Emotional

The mistake that the Buy-and-Holders made in thinking that market timing is not 100 percent required for every investor is … Read more

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Four Flaws in the Thinking That Retirement Plans Calling for Excessive Withdrawals Can Be Fixed Through Ongoing Adjustments

The conventional safe withdrawal rate studies claim that the safe withdrawal rate is always the same number and that that … Read more

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Shiller’s Research Should Bring on A Reconsideration Of The Great Depression

There are two big historical events that took place in 1929. One was the beginning of the Great Depression. The … Read more

If You Get the Safe Withdrawal Rate Wrong, You Get Everything Wrong

The safe withdrawal rate is 4 percent. You hear Buy-and-Holders say that all the time. The idea is that a … Read more

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Stock Investors Have to Know That They Are Wrong All Along For Stock Prices To Eventually Correct

Think what it means for irrational exuberance to be a real phenomenon, as Robert Shiller’s Nobel-prize-winning research shows to be … Read more

Valuation-Informed Stock Investing Strategies Are A Powerful Anti-Marketing Force

I was once very popular. No – really! From May of 1999 through May of 2002, I posted on the … Read more

Does Market Timing Becoming Less Important The Longer Irrational Exuberance Remains In Place?

I’m a big believer in market timing. Not short-term timing, to be sure. To engage in short-term timing is just … Read more

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Stock Investing Risk Is Variable, Not Constant

There once was a time when it was widely believed that the stock market was “efficient.” This is something that … Read more

People Spend More When Stock Prices Are High

People spend more when stock prices are high. It’s so obvious that it’s a silly thing to say. But I … Read more

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