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The cryptocurrency bitcoin has been increasing in popularity the last few years Many people are heralding it as the future of currency: more stable than the dollar, and able to be used...
image: while the concept may be humorous, the damage to your future security caused by failing to diversify is very real One of the real tragedies of the 2001 Enron debacle was how many loyal...
Every so often, financial advisors stress how important it is for investors to hold cash instead of jumping into the markets The intensity of their recommendation and the amount of cash they...
You aren’t going to want to hear this, but you’ll be glad you know it If you were going to design a poor quality asset, a really, really bad one, it wouldn’t be that hard First, you’d...
Gold and Stocks – The Best of Enemies It’s a well-known axiom in the financial marketplace: Stocks and gold travel in opposite directions When one is up, the other’s down and vice versa The...
Is there a place in our portfolios for both stocks and gold Does investing in one preclude investing in the other Ordinarily, according to Wall Street wisdom, you just might be a crackpot if you...
Some presidential campaigns have been nastier than others But during the particularly ugly ones we invariably hear talk that this is the worst yet, and how we’re moving closer to the final hour of...
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...
Even if you follow the mainstream financial news only occasionally, you’ll realize how much is made of exchange-traded funds, known as ETFs, these days ETFs have been around since 1989; the...
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,...
To curb the worst of the Great Recession in 2008, the US Federal Reserve Bank had to resort to extraordinary measures In the lingo of the Fed, they embarked upon an “unprecedented monetary...
