How to spot a market bubble

I found this interesting chart by Yale Professor, Roobert Shiller, showing the rise in home values over the last century. Look at the jump in prices during the last decade and you can understand what's going on right now. It also means that it may take some time for this mess to clear out...

housing bubble

Dan Caplinger on Investor Behavior

Dan Caplinger, estate-planning attorney, CFP, and writer for the Motley Fool, spoke at the Chelmsford library's Financial Fitness seminar series, and offered tips on staying clam and focused during these turbulent times. He also recapped the estate-planning series with some practical insights on different types of trusts.

Click here to view Dan's latest presentation.

The next presentation will be by Sham Gad, managing partner of Gad Capital Management. He runs the Gad Partners Fund, an investment partnership modeled after the 1950's Buffett Partnerships.

More details on his presentation to follow.

Warren Buffett's answers emails

Download the full transcript of Warren Buffett's Q&A session on CNBC's Squawk Box show.
Click here for the transcript.

March 13 Financial Fitness seminar

Back by popular demand!

As you may remember, we had a tremendous turnout for the November 2007 session with Dan Caplinger, estate-planning attorney, CFP, and writer for The Motley Fool. Several of you requested that we invite him for an encore presentation. So, it is my pleasure to announce that Dan will be back next week for a review of estate-planning basics and talk about investor behavior. More details, along with an agenda for the talk, will be listed on the library website soon.


Venue: Chelmsford Public Library, MA
When: March 13 (Thursday), 2008 at 7 PM
Title: Trusts & Estate Planning Part II, and Tips on Staying Calm In Turbulent Markets

See you there!