Are you ready for the next financial crisis? Another global monetary reset is coming because of the unsustainable debt accumulation over the last ten years. The Fed unleashed over two…
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Everyone wants to get their money back into the USA now that interest rates are up, so emerging market debt default risk is rising. It is an old story with…
Whenever Pinocchio told a lie his nose would grow, and it would be very helpful to investors if we could easily see when someone was lying like Pinocchio. We are…
Stocks are overvalued by most historical standards, so it might seem tempting to engage in short selling. The truth is that you should never short stocks because buying gold is…
The European Central Bank (ECB) kept interest rates artificially low for a long time, but financial repression has its limits. The combination of rising US interest rates and increasing political…
So many of the distortions in our economy began with going off the Gold Standard in 1971, and America’s trade deficit is no different. If we look at Census Bureau…
Financial markets are famously difficult to predict, so you need a backup plan if you want to be able to retire and stay retired. Ideally, this backup plan would do…
I’ve talked about rising gas prices, but we are also seeing faster economic growth, higher wages, and increasing raw material prices. It seems that nearly everything has been going up….
In Charles Schwab’s summer quarterly newsletter On Investing, CEO Walt Bettinger says “it may be wise to diversify with defensive assets, including cash investments, U.S. Treasuries and even precious metals.”…
Like nearly everyone else, I always keep some cash on hand. However, you should think twice before holding more than a few hundred dollars in cash. Paper money has unique…