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Lara Hoffmans is a content manager at Fisher Investments, managing editor of MarketMinder.com, a regular contributor to Forbes.com and co-author of the bestsellers, The Only Three Questions That Count, The Ten Roads to Riches, How to Smell a Rat and Debunkery.
Preface | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
The Plain-Old Normal | p. 1 |
Yes Sir, Sir John | p. 1 |
The Normal Normal | p. 5 |
The Jobless Recovery | p. 14 |
The Always Feared, Rarely Seen Double Dip | p. 23 |
Fooled by Averages | p. 31 |
Bull Markets Are Inherently Above Average | p. 32 |
Viva the V | p. 36 |
Normal Returns Are Extreme, Not Average. | p. 47 |
The Pause That Refreshes (and Confuses) | p. 49 |
Getting Average Returns Is HardùReally Hard | p. 53 |
Volatility Is Normal-and Volatile | p. 57 |
What the Heck is Volatility? | p. 58 |
Volatility Is Volatile | p. 61 |
The Daily Grind | p. 65 |
Stocks Are Less Volatile Than Bonds? | p. 67 |
Economic VolatilityùAlso Normal | p. 69 |
Volatility Isn't Inherently Bad | p. 71 |
Never a Dull Moment | p. 74 |
Secular Bear? (Secular) Bull! | p. 81 |
Seeing the World Through Bear-Colored Glasses | p. 82 |
Two Secular Bear Markets? | p. 84 |
StocksùUp Vastly More Than Down | p. 90 |
Debt and Deficient thinking | p. 101 |
Deficits Aren't Bad, but Surpluses Will Kill You | p. 105 |
The History of Big Government Debt | p. 110 |
Just Who Is at Default Here? | p. 116 |
Long-Term Love and Other Investing Errors | p. 123 |
No One Category Is Best for All Time | p. 124 |
Long-Term Love Is Like Long-Term ForecastingùBoth Wrong | p. 129 |
It's Still Heat Chasing Even When It Seems Safe | p. 134 |
Use History to Your Advantage | p. 146 |
Poli-Ticking | p. 151 |
Enter the Ideology-Free Zone | p. 152 |
Your Party Isn't Better | p. 153 |
Presidents and Risk Aversion | p. 155 |
Perverse InverseùIt's Four and One | p. 160 |
Poli-Tics Go Global | p. 170 |
Poli-Tics Versus Entrepreneurs | p. 172 |
It's (Always Been) a Global World, After All | p. 177 |
It's Always Been a Small World | p. 179 |
Seeing the World Right | p. 186 |
Conclusion | p. 194 |
Appendix | p. 197 |
Notes | p. 201 |
Index | p. 211 |
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