
Jeffrey Kosnett
Senior Editor, Kiplinger's Personal Finance at Kiplinger
Senior editor and columnist for Kiplinger's Personal Finance and Kiplinger.com since 1981. I write about bonds, yields, mutual funds and portfolio strategy.
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3 weeks ago |
theepochtimes.com | Jeffrey Kosnett
6/5/2025Updated: 6/5/2025By Jeffrey R. Kosnett From Kiplinger’s Personal FinanceI am long on record as an extreme skeptic of doom-loop and daisy-chain scenarios, where action A causes market reaction B, and then investments C, D, and E crash as traders and investors lose nerve and everyone’s portfolios drown in a flood of madcap selling. For 40 years, I have written that it is dumb to make quick portfolio decisions based on political and international events.
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1 month ago |
kiplinger.com | Jeffrey Kosnett
I am long on record as an extreme skeptic of doom-loop and daisy-chain scenarios, where action A causes market reaction B and then investments C, D and E crash as traders and investors lose nerve and everyone's portfolios drown in a flood of madcap selling. For 40 years, I have written that it is dumb to make quick portfolio decisions based on political and international events.
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Mar 18, 2025 |
kiplinger.com | Jeffrey Kosnett
Among my missions is to advise smart readers against doing dumb things out of haste or panic. Over the past two years, that wasn't a problem. The financial markets were uncommonly calm, and the dreaded recession was a mirage, so you could scarcely go wrong with sound dividend- and interest-paying assets. Stocks, including high-yield categories such as energy infrastructure, grew without interruption.
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Nov 19, 2024 |
kiplinger.com | Jeffrey Kosnett
Now that the Federal Reserve has cracked the interest rate ice, the next development will be to separate winners from losers. Most headlines and popular attention focus on the record-setting stock market indexes, on the premise that cheaper credit is rocket fuel and key rates are heading lower still.
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Sep 3, 2024 |
msn.com | Jeffrey Kosnett
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Stocks up, oil up. They're tethered. If you want the Dow at all-time highs, you'll have $4 gas. Stock bulls: Get a smaller car.

It's 100 here and we're in the summer silly season for stocks. And JPMorgan is now costing us way more than it lost. Their penance is lame.

Facebook stock can be $5 a share for all I care. It links my far-flung family from Brazil to Uzbekistan to all the USA. That's what counts.