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How To Survive Falling Markets
by Bill Hester of Hussman Funds, 3/17/25

One of the biggest challenges investors face today is navigating the most concentrated U.S. stock market in history, where the largest stocks represent a record share of total market value.

Collision Course: Monetary Tightening Meets an Easy Money Bubble
by Bill Hester of Hussman Funds, 12/13/21

Whether investors are ready or not, global monetary tightening cycles are fast approaching.

Three Profit Metrics to Avoid Earnings Season Myopia
by Bill Hester of Hussman Funds, 4/11/11
Alcoa, the aluminum producer, announces its earnings on Monday. So begins the reporting season of first-quarter company results. During this period in particular, it may be easy to become enamored with past corporate performance and miss potential forward-looking risks. To counterbalance the deluge of earnings reports to be delivered over the next few weeks, here are a few intermediate-term indicators and trends that investors may want to watch to gauge earnings conditions.

Changes in the Inflation Rate Matter as Much to Investors as the Level
by Bill Hester of Hussman Funds, 3/27/11
It is clear from February's inflation data that there was a broad increase in price levels last month, especially for goods used during the early stages of production. The Producer Price Index rose 5.6 percent from its level a year earlier, up from 3.6 percent in January. On a month-to-month basis, the PPI rose 1.6 percent, doubling its recent pace. That increase was partially fueled by higher food prices, which makes up about a fifth of the overall PPI. Commodity prices tracked within the PPI Index rose 8 percent from a year ago, up from 5.6 percent last month

An Uneven Global Recovery - Lingering Effects of the Credit Crisis
by Bill Hester of Hussman Funds, 3/14/11
The health of the global recovery depends on which country it is viewed from. When compared to the decade ending in 2007, a majority of developed countries are growing more slowly, have higher rates of unemployment, and have higher levels of inflation. There are exceptions. Notably, Germany is growing at twice its long-term average, with very low relative levels of unemployment. Stock market investors are showing growing sensitivity to differences in macro-economic risks. These may soon be further aggravated by monetary policies from the major central banks that are about to diverge noticeably

Do Past 10-Year Returns Forecast Future 10-Year Returns?
by Bill Hester of Hussman Funds, 10/5/10
The argument that above-average long-term returns typically follow periods of poor past long-term returns is not wrong, it's just incomplete.
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