2011 has been a rough year for investors.  Stocks, as measured by the S&P 500, are down nearly 8% for the year and down 14% from the April highs.  And while 14% may not sound like all that much in the grand scheme of things, investors felt every point in a surge of volatility that...Read More

Will Greece default, or won’t she?  This seems to be the question on every investor’s lips, and the uncertainty surrounding the outcome has the markets on edge. I have no inside information about how this crisis will be resolved, and even if I had the phones of every European leader bugged I’m not sure the...Read More

The Mises Institute, dedicated to “proceeding ever more boldly against evil,” appears to take issue with some of my comments on gold ($GLD $GC_F): Charles Sizemore, CFA, wrote back in June, “Gold today is as risky as tech stocks in 1999 and Miami condos in 2005, and the arguments supporting its rise are every bit...Read More

This week, Charles Sizemore discusses the gold bubble, the ongoing housing crisis and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s policy options with David Hays, host of the “Your Money” radio show on Bloomington, Indiana’s  FM 95-9 WGCL. To hear the interview, follow this link: Your Money with David Hays Charles Lewis Sizemore, CFA Sizemore Insights is a...Read More

Experienced debaters are familiar with the Latin term reductio ad absurdum. This is a tactic in which your opponent’s proposition is disproven by taking it to a logical extreme—or reducing it to the absurd. For example, the statement that “Stocks always rise over the long run” or that “Over the long run, the economy will...Read More