This week’s article is a series: Investment Strategies That Work – The Series by Neal Frankle on WealthPilgrim:

- Investment Strategies That Work – The Series – Day 1
- Investment Strategies That Work – Day 2 – Market Timing
- Investment Strategies That Work – Day 3 – Is Buy & Hold Dead or Alive?
- Investment Strategies That Work – Day 4 – Asset Allocation
- Investment Strategies That Work – Day 5 – Which Is The Best Fit?

This week you’ll gain an unfair advantage over most other investors. Over the course of the week, you’re going to understand how 3 very different investment strategies work. As a result, you’ll be able to make very smart investment decisions and significantly reduce your anxiety and stress.

I got clear on the need write this after receiving a stinging email from Keith telling me he wanted good old fashion investment advice from the blog. He “encouraged” me to stop fooling around with all these breezy ideas and acrobatics. He wanted to know what to invest in now.

Of course I’m going to continue writing about the relationship we have with money but I appreciated his question – even his criticism.

But I felt like a doctor who gets a call from a new patient wanting to know which medication to take. How can a doctor know what medicine to prescribe without examining the patient first?

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Runner-ups:

- Jack Bauer can’t stop ‘The Goldman Conspiracy’ by Paul B. Farrell
- Stiglitz Says Ties to Wall Street Doom Bank Rescue on Bloomberg
- Financial Innovation and Consumer Protection by Ben S. Bernanke
- Bank Regulators Clash Over U.S. Stress-Tests Endgame on Bloomberg
- Don’t Bank on It by Alan Abelson on Barrons
- Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in the FT
- Basel 2.0 by Patrick McConnell
- Economic Capital – a common currency of risk by Jennifer Lang
- Bank Profits Appear Out of Thin Air by Andrew Ross Sorkin
- The Reeducation of Tim Geithner by Gary Weiss

Related posts from the blog:

• Articles of the week (19/2009): The Stress test
• Article of the week (28/2009): Goldman Trading-Code Investment Put at Risk by Theft
• Articles of the week (15/2009 & 16/2009)
• Article of the week (23/2009): The Crisis and How to Deal with It
• Article of the week (27/2009): Goldman Sachs: The Great American Bubble Machine