Why do we jump through all of these “prevent-defense” hoops? Because we just don’t know how or have the patience to design and manage a classic, safer, plain vanilla, stocks and bonds portfolio. The market cycle is the favorite son of the investment gods. You either make it your friend or fail as an investor!

It was a fabulous decade for those investors who were able to see over, beyond, and through artificial time constraints to find the long-term opportunities within every beautiful market cycle undulation. There were plenty of gyrations to gyrate to if you only knew how.

By Shannon Zimmerman
November 25, 2009
I’ve been surveying the Fool’s premium service scorecards, analyzing a universe of stock recommendations that ranges from go-go growth companies to the comparatively buttoned-down dividend payers that the team at Income Investor selects for its members each month. And Income Investor is one service that I think deserves especially close scrutiny over [...]

Gordon G. Chang, 11.20.09, 12:01 AM ET
“The continuous depreciation in the dollar and the U.S. government’s indication that, in order to resume growth and maintain public confidence, it basically won’t raise interest rates for the coming 12 to 18 months, has led to massive dollar arbitrage speculation,” said Liu Mingkang, China’s chief bank regulator, [...]