“It was a year that made the smart money look dumb.”
-WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTER, JONATHAN CHENG
Special message: On Thursday evening, January 26th, we will be hosting the annual Evergreen Capital forecast event. It will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Bellevue, 10500 NE 8th (the northeast corner of Bellevue Way and NE 8th).
“If you can get long-term returns of 5% from either stocks or bonds, you should consider yourself or your portfolio in the upper echelon of competitors.”
– BOND FUND SUPERSTAR, BILL GROSS
POINTS TO PONDER
1. Morgan Stanley’s former star strategist, Byron Wien, now vice chairman of Blackstone Advisory Partners,
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
-Albert Einstein
Peak Experience. With a business career rapidly approaching the 35-year mark, I’ve taken a number of work-related trips to some unusual, even exotic, locales. Last week, however, I traveled to what might have been my most unlikely business venue,
“Witnessing the Republicans and Democrats endlessly bicker over the US debt is analogous to
watching two drunks argue over the bar bill on the Titanic.”
-READER GARY CARLSON in a letter to the editor of the Idaho Statesman
POINTS TO PONDER
1.
“GE is now finding it profitable to build manufacturing and service centers in the US rather than overseas, because it is more competitive to do so.”
– General Electric CEO, Jeff Immelt
1. Oil prices north of $100 are estimated to be sucking $100 billion of purchasing power out of the US economy.
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