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Everyone wants their retirement portfolios to perform, but along with the prospect of gains comes the risk of loss Protecting your portfolio can mean not only making smart investment choices but also...
To say that 2024 has been an interesting year is quite the understatement After all, who would have had “Trump assassination attempt” on their 2024 bingo card What promised to be a heated...
Over the past few years, there has probably been no financial topic more widely discussed than inflation It’s a problem that has impacted every American household, and has impacted the standard of...
Inflation has been a hot topic for several years now Once mostly ignored when inflation rates were closer to 2% annually, price increases over the past few years have hammered home to many Americans...
Safe haven buying of gold has been strong ever since 2020 But in recent years it hasn’t just been investment demand that has boosted the gold price, it’s also been demand from central...
The US government is spending so much money these days that it’s becoming unfathomable even to grasp the amounts Back in 2008, a one-time $700 billion bank bailout was considered a huge amount of...
If the thought of a $34 trillion national debt seems too big to imagine, that’s probably because it is It’s a sum so huge that it’s nearly impossible to comprehend Many people like to...
If you feel like the inflation of the past several years has left you behind financially, you’re not alone Over 97% of all salaries in this country have failed to keep up with inflation over the...
Six months ago, Wall Street was beside itself with glee in the expectation that the Federal Reserve would soon begin to start cutting interest rates Yet here we are nearly mid-year and, while other...
The latter half of the 20th century was dominated by the Cold War, the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union While the USSR’s collapse brought about a feeling in the United States...
For those hoping for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, those cuts don’t seem to be coming any closer Inflation has dropped ever so slightly, to 34% year on year, and the unemployment rate...
One of the problems facing markets today is that many market actors believe that federal policymakers and regulators have the ability to fix the economy They have placed their trust in the Federal...
More than anything else, stagflation defined the 1970s The portmanteau of stagnation and inflation was an economic catastrophe that completely dumbfounded the mainstream economic establishment at the...
