Rising Gold, Oil Prices a Danger Signal
It’s one of the peculiarities of the world that rising oil and gold prices are contrary indicators for the economy, but that correlation is pretty long-standing The strange part about this...
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It’s one of the peculiarities of the world that rising oil and gold prices are contrary indicators for the economy, but that correlation is pretty long-standing The strange part about this...
There was a time when saying something was as safe as “money in the bank” meant it was the soundest of all possible investments You don’t often hear that line these days, and for good reason...
In 2016, we’ve seen gold flourish as a safe haven for investors fleeing stock market uncertainty, global debt and deflation and the anxiety-induced currency fluctuations kindled by Brexit All told,...
Throughout the history of investing, market crashes have always come as a surprise The interesting thing about those surprise turnarounds is that, in hindsight, they were pretty obvious Anyone in...
Anyone in high school today is old enough to have memories of the last banking crisis Maybe those memories include helping pack up their room in the big house in the suburbs because the family had to...
On June 23 the UK elected to abandon the European Union (EU) in what can be characterized as a 52% to 48% squeaker Emotional reactions to the event have ranged from giddy triumph in more rural,...
In the old days if you worked hard, kept out of trouble and saved a little money, you’d end up doing all right in life It was a simple formula, and for the most part it worked Today those simple...
After forty years of watching foreign countries bleed our manufacturing base away, the US is finally starting to talk tough on currency manipulation A Treasury Department report fingered China,...
Despite the insistence in some quarters that “We’re in recovery!” somehow it just doesn’t feel that way We’re sluggish We’re employed, most of us, but not moving onward and upward...
Here’s a quick tale from the annals of Americana My very first entrepreneurial venture was a lemonade stand I set up on a busy street corner in Philadelphia I must have been about eight I...
One of the inescapable realities of investing is that if you wait until a trend becomes news everyone knows, you’ve already missed the train So it’s important to see the crest before it becomes a...