Quotes of the Day

We should always respect the presence of support and resistance levels on a price chart; they represent "invisible forces" that tend to repel prices away from them. [2008] - Yeo Keong Hee

Even though brown rice is a whole grain, I no longer recommend its consumption because of significant arsenic contamination of most of the brown rice available for purchase in the United States--even organic brown rice and wild rice. Arsenic is a causative factor in many cancers, and it also promotes heart disease. Recommended intact whole grains include wheat berries, steel cut oats, quinoa, buckwheat, barley, millet, teff, and amaranth. [2020] - Joel Fuhrman

Poor or inadequate sleep can help tilt us into metabolic dysfunction. Multiple large meta-analyses of sleep studies have revealed a close relationship between sleep duration and risk of type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome. But it cuts both ways: long sleep is also a sign of problems. People who sleep 11 hours or more nightly have a nearly 50% higher risk of all-cause mortality, likely because long sleep = poor quality sleep, but it may also reflect an underlying illness. Similar risk associations have been found between poor or short sleep and hypertension (17%), cardiovascular disease (16%), coronary heart disease (26%), and obesity (38%). [2023] - Peter Attia

You have to look at rolling 20-year periods before there's a very high probability of equity returns close to 8% average. This means if your time horizon or temperament prevents you from thinking that far ahead, you need to dampen your portfolio with an allocation to high-quality bonds. This will lower your expected return, but that is the inevitable trade-off between risk and reward. [2021] - Dan Bortolotti

The price of real estate goes up for two simple economic reasons, scarcity and inflation. You can make money speculating in real estate if you spend enough time researching your market, have the capital to risk, can cover the carrying costs, and are fortunate enough for prices to go up rapidly. Of course, you can do the same thing in the stock market too. [2004] - Mike Summey