Bill Miller

At this time last year, maybe you thought the economy would be a bit more gracious by now. No such luck. But as we reflect on the year that was, here are six financial lessons that 2011 taught us all.

Legg Mason's Bill Miller was the mutual fund industry's rock star through the 1990s and the first few years of this millennium. Now he's unplugging his amp and walking off the stage.

Here's the question: What about Bill Miller? The man once hailed as "the country's greatest mutual fund manager" is now a Wall Street goat, and there's a vital investing lesson to be learned from his fall from grace.

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An expanding roster of heavyweight investors are betting that the economic recovery taking shape in the U.S. will be much stronger than is widely believed. The growing bullishness among major investors follows a wave of optimistic economic data that suggests prior views of muted recovery might be...