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So thanks, Captain Obvious. But what if the market is wrong?
Focus on the long term and leave the emotional ping pong to others: there have been big falls this week, but they're probably of little consequence.
- by Scott Phillips
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Five ways blockchain could revolutionise the sharemarket
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Something funny happened on the way to prosperity.
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House bubble? Hard landing? It's time to stop listening to the pundits
In investing, it can be more profitable to be optimistic and occasionally wrong, rather than pessimistic and occasionally right.
- by Scott Phillips
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This time the stock market's different, isn't it?
After almost a decade of stock market gains, confidence has returned. What crash? What lessons? There are only blue skies ahead, right?
- by Scott Phillips
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Everyone panic! the crash is coming ... or not
They told us, but we didn't listen. And now, the crash is coming. Or not.
- by Scott Phillips
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Malcolm Turnbull flounders on power
I want to lay off the federal government. Really, I do. But they make it hard.
- by Scott Phillips
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The good, the bad and the ugly of privatisation
In a perfect world, this article would have begun with a quote from the gangster/shrink movie Analyse This, released in 1999.
- by Scott Phillips
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Why our leaders lie, and we don't care
People, like markets, despise uncertainty. We'd rather go along with the fiction that someone is in control. The problem, of course, is that once they know that, governments and managers act accordingly.
- by Scott Phillips
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Treasurer, you're relieved until I fix this mess
Have a break. With the help of some of your best bureaucrats, I've got it from here.
- by Scott Phillips
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Investors, it's about to get bumpy
Just when investors should be preparing themselves for the inevitable return of volatility, many have let their guard down.
- by Scott Phillips