The coercive power of government is more dangerous than the free market. Special interests use it to circumvent both the law and economics.
Read More...Freedom Investing
Every year the Heritage Foundation evaluates all the world’s countries using their Index of Economic Freedom, where a high score correlates to nearly every positive measure of a country. In 2002, David John Marotta started following the returns of an investment portfolio based on economic freedom, which he later wrote about in Foreign Freedom Investing 2008. Now, he's concluded very definitely that freedom matters even in your investment portfolio.
Radio: The Importance of Property Rights
David John Marotta was interviewed recently on radio 1070′s WINA Schilling Show discussing property rights and their importance for a free society.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower on tax cuts and a balanced budget
“Until the deficit is eliminated from our budget, … there is no end to inflation; there is finally no end to taxation; and the eventual result would, of course, be catastrophe.”
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The Effective Rule of Law Propels Prosperity
Property rights are among the characteristics most correlated with high levels of per capita gross domestic product (GDP).
Read More...Are Property Rights Human Rights?
Does a property owner has the right to use and dispose of his property as he sees fit even if that means he is being irrational, arbitrary, capricious, even unjust?
Read More...AAII 2013
Follow-up information for 2013 AAII presentation “Dynamic Portfolio Construction in the Context of Comprehensive Wealth Management.”
Read More...The Ring of Fire – Part 2
“Unless we begin to close this gap, then the inevitable result will be that our debt/GDP ratio will continue to rise, the Fed would print money to pay for the deficiency, inflation would follow, and the dollar would inevitably decline.”
Read More...Vote Marotta As the World’s Next Great Investing Columnist on WSJ’s MarketWatch.com
MarketWatch is seeking a top-notch writer who will bring a fresh perspective on money to the world’s investors. We believe that fresh perspective ought to include the idea of freedom investing.
Read More...How are foreign stocks doing compared to stocks in the United States? Fall 2012
Sometimes the medium term trend seems to weigh more heavily in our minds than the long or short term trends.
Read More...Freedom Investing worth 4.3% over the last twelve months
Countries are constantly in flux, and with all the noise of the markets, it is easy for the noise drown out the signal.
Read More...How is Freedom Investing working out?
How the five countries with the most economic freedom (Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Switzerland and Canada) and Emerging Markets have been faring in comparison to the EAFE Index?
Read More...10-Year Freedom Investing Returns
Freedom scores ranged from #1 in freedom Hong Kong at 89.9 to #92 ranked mostly unfree Italy at 58.8.
Read More...5-Year Freedom Investing Returns
Over the past five years, countries with the most economic freedom averaged annual returns just below emerging markets.
Read More...Sovereign Debt and Deficit by Country
Sovereign debt and deficit weigh most heavily on a country’s level of government spending, one of the ten components of freedom in the Heritage Foundation economic freedom study
Read More...3-Year Freedom Investing Returns
We believe this is one of the times when your asset allocation should tilt foreign and overweight the handful of countries with high economic freedom.
Read More...New Zealand: Economic Paradise
New Zealand, the fourth highest country in economic freedom, joined the United States with positive returns for 2011.
Read More...1-Year Freedom Investing Returns
The equation of the trend line shows that every point on the freedom index was worth 0.36% annual return over the past year.
Read More...Freedom Investing 2012
Now at year end, I will review how freedom investing fared in 2011 and in the decade since 2002.
Read More...Debt, Uncertainty and Volatility in 2011
The world markets groaned as the burden of the rising American debt and the European deficit weighed down more productive countries.
Read More...Market Timing Test ($ ?s)
Q: I have put my investments in bonds until this global economic crisis settles down and the economic woes of the European Union subside. Do you have any suggestions for indicators that I should look for to get back in?
Read More...Ratio Of Takers To Givers Reaches A Tipping Point
This is what makes the stock market in some countries better than others. Make sure that you understand freedom investing for your portfolio.
Read More...This Time is (Not) Different
Growing investor despair that somehow we have entered into a new era in which individual investors can no longer make money in the markets is an overreaction to the headlines.
Read More...Libertarians Should Invest More Down Under
Libertarians and economists both recognize that countries with more economic freedom experience higher gross domestic product (GDP) growth. That growth translates into higher stock returns for investors savvy enough to look for governmental fiscal restraint rather than government stimulus.
Read More...Freedom Investing
Given the dangers of worldwide sovereign debt, this may be one time when investors should continue to tilt foreign and toward specific countries.
Read More...Watch Milton Friedman’s “Free To Choose” PBS Series for Free
The legendary PBS TV series “Free to Choose” (1980) by Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman is now available on Google Video for free (by courtesy of the Palmer R. Chitester Fund).
Read More...Global Fixed Income (International Bonds): Hedged or Unhedged?
International bonds now make up more than 35% of the world’s investable assets, and yet many domestic investors have little or no exposure to these securities.
Read More...An Overseas Gone-Fishing Portfolio
Even in our gone-fishing portfolios we suggest investing more overseas than in the United States. For most investors, foreign stocks will be their largest and most important allocation. Including the right mix of foreign stocks will help you relax and go fishing no matter which foreign seas are in turmoil.
Read More...Continue to Avoid the ‘Ring of Fire’ Countries
Americans seem to be divided on the importance of raising the U.S. debt ceiling. Regardless of your personal politics, avoid investing in countries that cavalierly allow their debt and deficit to balloon.
Read More...Where in the World Should You Invest?
Finding countries where you can plant your investments in fertile soil may be one of the most important asset allocation decisions you make for the next several years.
Read More...Avoid the “Ring-of-Fire” Countries
A few months ago Bill Gross, co-founder of PIMCO and the country’s most prominent bond expert, singled out those countries heaping significant deficits on their mountain of debt and called them “The Ring of Fire.” We recommend that you reduce your investments in these countries.
Read More...Foreign Freedom Investing 2008
You can both diversify for safety and boost your returns by adding international investments to your portfolio. In the past year, international stocks performed 2.5% better than U.S. stocks. And developed countries with the most economic freedom returned an additional 4.4% more than the international index.
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