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Today's Trash Is Tomorrow's Treasure

By Arne Alsin

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Investors take note: You're looking an extraordinary bull market, the likes of which you'll never see again. Embrace the right strategy -- a strategy that I'll explain below -- and you can run circles around the S&P 500. Forget about beating the index. I'm going to tell you how to crush it. The seeds for outperformance were sown during the mega-bear market that ended in March. Understand it, and you'll understand how to lap the S&P. Why was the bear market over the top in severity? It wasn't just because of the economy. While the bear market approximated the inflation-adjusted losses suffered during Great Depression, we're in a very different economy now. We're not going to see 10,000 banks fail, and we're not going to see unemployment soar to 25%. There was a reason stock prices got smashed to excess: liquidity evaporated virtually overnight. The decline...

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