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With COVID-19 having resulted in lockdowns across the world, and with fears of second and third waves of the virus causing even the limited reopenings that have occurred to pause, there’s a great deal of uncertainty about what the future of the US economy will look like. Will we...
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 around the globe. We may even be tempted to point and laugh at those simpletons who thought they could...
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 wonderful, as investors’ retirement account balances balloon to massive levels. But the bust phase...
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 just at nominal numbers doesn’t tell the whole story. You have to know how much your assets...
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, which sent bond yields plummeting. While Fed Chairman Jay Powell has long stated that the Fed won’t take interest...
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, and with the national debt rapidly approaching $25 trillion, just how much more stimulus spending will...
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 time an investor buys or sells stocks, bonds, mutual fund shares, etc. In other cases it’s because they just don’t...
Wealthy investors are stockpiling cash at levels we haven’t seen since 2001. Learn about the factors that are contributing to investors taking this action.