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Gold is up nineteen percent for the year, as of this writing, and after having tantalizingly touched just above thirteen hundred dollars per ounce earlier in the month, the shiny metal’s price...
I’ve written a great deal in this blog about economic uncertainty and how it affects our finances and outlook for a secure retirement While the world at large is afflicted by uncertainty, here in...
image: IMF head Christine Lagarde makes $467,940 annually, plus $83,760 to "maintain an appropriate scale of living" Her tax bill Zero It’s the oldest story in business They teach sophisticated...
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,...
Millions of Americans are sleep-walking into a financial nightmare If your income suddenly dropped by sixty percent would you still be able to make ends meet What if your car stopped working or you...
Of all the precious metals, gold shines as the most high-profile; a preferred investment for professional traders that acts as an effective hedge against a declining stock market and weakening...
Yesterday we started on a subject that’s worth further examination Previously we traced the history of one of the greatest economic collapses in our nation’s history back to the actions of one...
Individual investors looking to protect their savings from unpredictable declines in stocks are increasingly turning to gold It’s a smart way to take a portion of your wealth off the table,...
It would be a joke – if it weren’t so serious The retirement savings of the average worker in America comes to a paltry fourteen and a half thousand dollars Yet the bare minimum he or she...
One of the brighter aspects of the good old days, when workers had jobs that lasted, was the defined benefit plan, otherwise known as a pension With this plan, an employee could lock in a monthly...
The global economy is more like a living, breathing thing than a static monetary concept What gives that living economy breath are goods and services moving between countries The flow of those...
Markets have an abiding memory Although most investors don’t have the foggiest notion of technical indicators in an investment, they have an uncanny sense of a bargain – especially when it...
