US Pension Plans Continue to Deteriorate
While pension plans have all but disappeared from private sector workplaces, significant numbers of public employees still expect to receive pensions when they retire, and indeed in many cases depend...
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While pension plans have all but disappeared from private sector workplaces, significant numbers of public employees still expect to receive pensions when they retire, and indeed in many cases depend...
The jobs report that came out last Friday sent shockwaves throughout the economy Economists had estimated that the economy would lose another further 75 million jobs in May, yet the BLS reported that...
Social Security has been in dire financial shape for much of its existence The system has never been in sound fiscal shape almost from the beginning, and that was really by design The first...
With recent weakness in financial markets, many investors have been looking for ways to safeguard their wealth, and particularly their retirement savings Stock markets are set to take a beating, bond...
No one wants to think that hyperinflation can happen in the United States, but it can We’re all familiar with hyperinflationary crises in Weimar Germany, Zimbabwe, and numerous other countries...
The booms and busts of the business cycle are an unfortunate aspect of modern life that many investors have come to expect, and fear Investing during the boom phase of the business cycle can be...
When assessing the performance of retirement assets, or indeed of any investment, most people look at the total return of an investment when assessing how much asset growth they’ll see But looking...
As the 2008 financial crisis continues to move to the backs of our minds, and as the current coronavirus kerfuffle becomes all-consuming, many people seem to have lost their awareness of just how...
We’ve been singing silver’s praises for a while, as the white metal just doesn’t get the attention and appreciation that its golden brother does But the potential for price appreciation is...
Just because stock markets have yet to price in the weakening US economy doesn’t mean that all investors are in the dark about what’s going on And that’s why the gold price continues to rise,...
Last week saw an unprecedented market freakout, as markets began pricing in the likelihood of negative interest rates in the future Futures markets anticipated negative rates as soon as November,...
With stock and bond markets having a rough 2020 so far, and with markets poised for even greater losses this year as economic production craters, more and more investors are looking to protect their...
With the federal government already having spent over $2 trillion on the last stimulus bill, with the Federal Reserve having added over $2 trillion to its balance sheet since the beginning of March,...
When financial crises are on the horizon, investors look to safe havens in order to protect their investment assets Inevitably, gold is the first asset that most investors look to, as it grabs...
With much preliminary March data indicating a really rough time last month, many businesses are warning that April could be even worse Rating agency Fitch is warning that loan defaults could rise to...
Most people realize that mainstream financial institutions don’t like gold In many cases it’s because they can’t make money selling investors on gold, whereas they can make commissions every...
Along with George Orwell’s 1984, Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World depicted the extent to which future governments would attempt to dominate society But increasingly the warnings...
Most investors know by now that the Federal Reserve has intervened heavily in the US economy over the past several weeks What they may not realize, however, is just how deep that intervention has...
The federal government has already pledged $2 trillion to help households and businesses withstand the pressure placed on them from the coronavirus But the final price tag could end up far higher,...
With markets still far below their all-time highs, investors are fleeing to the safety of gold and silver like they haven’t in close to a decade And that has pushed gold prices to levels that...
With millions of Americans having recently entered unemployment, it was no surprise that many families were going to have difficulty paying rent and mortgages But just how much difficulty they would...