Will the Fed’s Rate Cut Really Do Anything?
While the Federal Reserve’s rate cut last week was fully expected, the reasons behind it are increasingly unclear At the post-FOMC press conference, Fed Chairman Jay Powell seemed to flip flop on...
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While the Federal Reserve’s rate cut last week was fully expected, the reasons behind it are increasingly unclear At the post-FOMC press conference, Fed Chairman Jay Powell seemed to flip flop on...
One aspect of the post-financial crisis recovery that is of particular concern is that people’s attitudes towards their financial well-being seems not to have recovered Many of the benefits of the...
The current stock market bull market has been fueled by the massive amounts of money pumped into world economies by central banks around the world All that money had to go somewhere, and it has...
One of the frustrating things to those who know that a stock market crash is coming has been the recent behavior of stock markets All signs are pointing to an economic slowdown just around the...
Everyone has dreams of retiring some day For many people, that’s the motivation that keeps them coming into work every day, the knowledge that every day they’re building up more and more money in...
If you pay attention to financial media you’ve probably heard of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” The author, Robert Kiyosaki, has made a killing selling books and giving talks espousing his theory of...
One of the most misunderstood factors when it comes to buying gold, silver and other precious metals, is whether to buy physical gold or paper gold Physical gold is just what the name suggests:...
Alan Greenspan was notorious as a Federal Reserve Board Chairman for engaging in “Fedspeak,” a variation of English that sounded as though he was conveying vast amounts of information but in...
The retirement savings gap is the difference between what people have saved for retirement and how much they actually need to save in order to retire comfortably Many people are aware that Americans...
For the seventh consecutive month, the Chinese government announced that it has added to its gold holdings The latest published figures are those from May, in which the Chinese government officially...
When dealing with Wall Street investors you often have to understand that what they push their clients into investing isn’t always what they themselves would recommend Due to the commission...
Debt issuance has always been pretty straightforward A borrower issues bonds that pay interest to entice lenders to part with their money for a period of time The longer the term of the bond or the...
The policymakers at the Federal Reserve, and at most central banks for that matter, have a horrible track record when it comes to figuring out when an economy is in a bubble By the time they realize...
By now most people are aware that one of the major factors behind increasing gold demand around the world is increased demand from governments and central banks Rather than being net sellers of gold...
If you’re saving and investing, it’s probably for a reason For most people that means saving for retirement And that requires a long time horizon and a great deal of discipline It also leads to a...
While India may be one of the world’s largest holders of gold, with Indian citizens holding an estimated 24,000 tonnes of gold, other countries are catching up China is one of those, with an...
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, many investors were understandably nervous about investing their money With stock markets having lost over 50% of their value during the...
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is probably shaking in his boots right now Taking over from Janet Yellen in 2018, he inherited a bubble economy created by his two predecessors that is now on...
It may seem like an obvious truth that in order to retire you need to save enough money to afford to live the lifestyle to which you’ve become accustomed, but millions of households don’t save...
To hear the financial media tell it, the US economy is going great There are more job openings than unemployed people, companies are falling all over themselves trying to find workers, and the future...
single-post post__primary img {display:none !important;} Central bankers try to devalue their currencies, but that means they can't trust currencies as a store of value So they buy gold when...