This week in WealthTrack’s series on “Great Investors”, Consuelo Mack travels to Los Angeles to interview Robert Rodriguez, CEO of First Pacific Advisors. His 25-year track record of running both a top-performing stock and bond fund has earned him the accolade “best fund manager of our time”.

“The outspoken Rodriguez who sheltered shareholders from the credit crisis explains why he is even more worried now about the future and how he intends to invest as a result.”

Note: The transcript of this interview is not available yet, but will be posted hear as soon as it arrives.

Source: WealthTrack, July 10, 2009.

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As the bringer of doom, gloom and potential yellow shoots, I eagerly await an economic report for the first time in ages. The last 3 months of reports have been meaningless – all I know is when it’s bad news ignore it (it’s backwards looking anyway), buy stocks. And when it’s better than expected it is no longer backwards looking… and you should buy stocks. As gas prices surge higher, I buy consumer discretionary stocks. When interest rates jump, I buy consumer discretionary stocks. Notice the theme? Just buy stocks.

But today I wave a potential yellow shoot – the weekly MBA mortgage report.

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