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...we’ve “still got it”...
Power To The People - Lumbard Insight - February 2007

Lumbard Investment Counseling is a traditional investment advisory firm. located in Hollis, New Hampshire.

 Lumbard Investment Counseling maintains an unusually low ratio of clients to investment counselors.

Lumbard Investment Counseling is engaged in the management of equity and fixed income securities on behalf of endowments and foundations.

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Summer 2010:
Greece, Democracy, Debt, and Decline
- 20 Years In Business - Let’s Make a Deal - Good News! - Integrity - Up From The Ground Come A Bubblin’ Crude - Human Nature.
 

February 2010:
Fleeing From The Safety Of Cash
- A New Toy For Congress - Ask Singapore - Ill-Gotten Gains - 10/10/10 - Small Is Beautiful - Quintupled (And A Half) - Free At The Scooter Store! - Taking Back The Congress.
 

Autumn 2009:
Bumbling Banks
- Rays of Sunshine - The Natural Truth - How To Smell A Rat - Blame the Ratings Agencies - No-Money-Down Subprime Mortgages, Revisited - Land of the Rising . . . . Debt - Still Falling. Better Performance than Warren Buffett. For Ten Years.
 

 

 

 

Previous Issues of Lumbard Insight Newsletters

 

 

 

2009

Spring

A Stimulus Program That Worked - Inflation, Deflation, and the Magic of Banking - In the last 10 years the S&P 500 declined 38%, from 1286 to 797. Our accounts appreciated more than 90%. - Lord Keynes Was Wrong - The Chance of a Lifetime - Loan Sharks In the Water - A New Bull Market? - The Capitalist Poor - The Fire Next Time - The 17% Solution - Speak Now, or Forever Hold Your Peace - Bureaucracy, Inefficiency, and the Most Expensive Health Care the World Has Ever Known.

 

February

Carpet Bombing With Cash - Looking Back At Recent Issues Of Insight - Buy Corporate Bonds - Quadrupled, Even Now - The Debt Bomb - The Madness Of Madoff - Borrowing And Spending - The Grass Is Not Always Greener... Life on the other side of the fence

 

 

 

2008

Autumn

The Great Mortgage Mess of 2008 - Good News! - Boeing - Gridlock is Best - Pipeline of Plenty - See No Evil, Speak No Evil - Safety - More Good News

 

Summer

The Lessons of History - Forecasting Yesterday’s News - Taking Profits - Muddling Along - Bubbling Crude - It’s Your Money - How To Launch An Economic Recovery - We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Oil

 

Winter

Looking Back -  Bananas -  Wealth and Leverage -  Quadrupled !  - National Referendum -  The 12,000-Year Record

 

 

 

2007

Autumn

Ex Uberance  - Easy Street  - Buy Treasuries -  Sell Junk -  Upside Down -  Predatory Lending  - Back-woods Nuclear Power -  Credit Crunch -  Honesty is the Best Policy

 

Summer

Lipstick on the Pig  - Risky Business -  Another Bubble Deflates -  A Sure-Thing  - 100 to 1 Shot, Hedge Funds -  Jumping from One Hot Mutual Fund to the Next  - Guzzling

 

Winter

Power to the People  - A Cleaner and Safer Future -  PEPCO -  How to Build Wealth, The Oil Glut -  Small is Beautiful  - Realty Check -  Terror is for Pragmatists

 

 

 

2006

Autumn

Buy Bonds  - Health Corner  - Sierra Pacific -  Overbooking -  Quadrupled! -  Hidden Expenses -  Bristol-Myers -  A Glut of Oil -  House Poor

 

Summer

The Bubble Bath  – The Rising Euro  – Ringing Up The Profits –  Booking Profits in Beijing  – Waterworld –  A Fistful of Dollars  – A Stronger World Economy

 

Winter

A Sea of Oil –  Cars of the Future  – Invest Overseas, More Junk—Less Time –  Lose Weight and Quit Smoking! –  Refi Madness  – A Sea of Red Ink –  Gone Phishin’

 

2005

Autumn

Storm Clouds and Silver Linings  – The 50-50 Principle  – Classical Gas  – Bottoms Up –  The Financial Follies: Finding Fraud –  Vaction Homes, Revisited

 

Summer

Passion  – A House of Cards –  The Perfect Investment  – The Glass is Half Full!  – Sports-Utility Stocks  – The Worst Investment You’ll Ever Make  – Spitzer Stocks

 

Winter

Bulldozers –  The Real Estate Bubble  – OTELCO, Bloat  – Snake Oil  – High on Finance—Crazed with Credit –  Seven Surprises –  You’re Fired!

 

2004

Autumn

Energized  – The Declining Dollar –  Know Your Tax Bracket –  When to Sell  – The Golden Years –  We Just Want To Pump You Up –  Elder Boomers and more…

 

Summer

Diamonds In The Coal Bin –  The Bubble Bath –  Favorite Stocks –  You’ll Never Go Broke Taking Profits –  Boring Stocks Are Best  – Hope –  and more...

 

Winter

Seven Surprises Of 2004  – What To Buy Now  – The Lowest Tax Rate You’ll See In Your Lifetime –  Power To The Shareholders –  Staying The Curse –  Avoiding The Herd

 

2003

Autumn

WYSIWYG – Sell High, Buy Low – Going Global – TECO – The New Tax Law: Rethinking Tax-Advantaged Accounts – Externalities – and more…

 

Summer

A Thousand Points Of Darkness – BELLWETHER CISCO – The Hunt For Value – Real Companies – The Great Grab-Bag Giveaway – and more…

 

Winter

Good Economy, Bad Market – Dividends Rule – Overseas Profits – Long-Term Investing – The World’s Biggest Tax Laws – and more…

 

2002

Autumn

Say Goodnight To The Day Traders –  Rare Books  – Billions –  High Yield  – Money In Your Pocket  – Health Care: A Growth Industry –  and more…

 

Winter

What We Bought On September 17 –  A Farewell To Materialism –  Frightfully Helpfu  – The Dollar –  Pharmaceuticals On Sale –  Strategic Reserves  – What do you do now?

 

 

 

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