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Ken Fisher

Né(e): November 29, 1950 – San Francisco, California, United States

Ken Fisher is an American investment analyst and financial writer focused on stock markets, portfolio strategy, and investor behavior. He wrote Super Stocks, which helped popularize the price-to-sales ratio, and authored 11 investing books, including four New York Times bestsellers. His Forbes column ran from 1984 to 2016, the magazine’s longest continuous run.

Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur

Ken Fisher’s professional story begins in Northern California. Born in San Francisco and raised in San Mateo, he grew up in the orbit of investing through his father, Philip Fisher, the influential investor and author of Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits. Yet his earliest academic interest was not finance but forestry: he entered Humboldt State University with a strong interest in redwood preservation before graduating in 1972 with a degree in economics. After a period at his father’s firm, Fisher & Co., the defining entrepreneurial turn came in 1979, when he founded Fisher Investments, initially focused on institutional money management. ((https://www.kenfisher.com/about/professional-career))

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the stock market is best thought of as the "Great Humiliator"
-Why is the Market Looking to Humiliate You?
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there's upside volatility and downside volatility
-Ken Fisher Explains Stock Market Volatility
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the market is, in theory and in reality, a pre-pricer of all widely known information
-How Markets Pre-Price Widely Known Information
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Have we lost a lot of jobs to overseas? Yes. But it's not got a darn thing to do with trade deficits
-Trade Deficits Make Deficient Markets
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Simply central banks hiking rates, short-term rates, or lowering them does not in and of itself tighten or loosen money
-Don’t Fight the Fed
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Every good thing we have, whatever it is, came to us somehow, some way through capitalism
-Energy Outlook
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I do not think that we're about to deglobalize
-De-Globalization Fears
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Stupid traders reduce volatility
-AI Trading Increases Market Volatility
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With capitalism, you can never figure out what the innovations are that are 20 years away
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