Episode 44 - Be Careful When Reading Investing Blogs

I read a lot of investing articles. Some are quite good. Meb Faber's research over at Cambria Funds comes to mind. His podcast is fantastic as well. But a lot of investment blogs are not quite good. Some are just horrific and you wonder how their compliance managers let such tripe be published. Others, though, at first glance seem to be well thought out until you start to read deeper and realize the author is regurgitating many of the arguments form yesteryear, which have since be debunked. However, some articles do have some golden nuggets thrown in with a few cringe-worthy statements. These are the articles the reader can take away good information IF and only if, he or she can differentiate the bad from the good. I walk you through a couple articles just like this today that was sitting, for over a year, in my "stack of stuff." I have a large plastic crate of articles, books, magazines etc. that require my attention but I seem to overlook other than once in a while.