If this is a recovery, what does it look like when we see a downturn? Perhaps the news will get it right this time. Instead of strutting out the “less bad” commentary, perhaps we will hear:

Less Good

More Bad

Not Stabilizing

Dropping

Brown Shoots

We were wrong…

Nah…That wouldn’t be politically correct.

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The 5th Annual Podcast Awards are now in the voting stage. Amazingly, you have helped to put all 3 of my podcasts in the running for an award. Now comes the part where you can vote for your favorite show and I hope that you will choose The Disciplined Investor and/or DHUnplugged or The Winning [...]

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We have updated our retail sales spreadsheet. We are seeing a continuation of the same trend that shows that sales are picking up, but remember that we are now starting to get the tailwind that is comparing a miserable period to today. This will help to make the numbers and comparisons look much better.

Many of [...]

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