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AJ Tiarsmith, PhD

Months Before The 1929 Crash, Floyd Odlum Quietly Sold Half His Stock Portfolio And Raised $14 Million In Cash. While Other Investors Were Wiped Out, He Spent The Next 6 Years Buying Distressed Companies At Sixty Cents On The Dollar. By 1935 He Was One Of The 10 Richest Men In America.

Most investors in 1929 had no idea the crash was coming, yet one obscure former attorney positioned himself to profit from the wreckage in a way that made him one of the richest people…

AJ Tiarsmith · 2 weeks ago

Days Before Black Monday In 1987, A Lehman Analyst Correctly Predicted The Stock Market Crash On National TV. She Became A Wall Street Legend Over Night And Investors Handed Elaine Garzarelli $700 Million To Manage. The Next Year Her Fund Had Become The Worst Performing Growth Fund In America.

One televised prediction made Elaine Garzarelli a Wall Street legend and handed her $700 million to manage. What happened next reveals something uncomfortable about how investors decide who to trust.

AJ Tiarsmith · 2 weeks ago

In 1939, As War Broke Out In Europe, He Told His Broker: ‘Buy Me $100 Of Everything Below $1 A Share.’ Over The Next 7 Decades, John Templeton’s Philosophy That ‘The Time Of Maximum Pessimism Is The Best Time To Buy’ Made Him One Of The Wealthiest Men In The World.

When war panic drove most investors to the exits in 1939, a 26-year-old made a single unconventional bet that would define a century of investing wisdom. The logic behind his trade still challenges everything…

AJ Tiarsmith · 2 weeks ago