Why This Isn’t Another 2008
…that Bloomberg tracks, only one sees a contraction in the coming four quarters. Most are anchored around 2.5 percent, which is slow but positive. There appears to be some divergence…
…that Bloomberg tracks, only one sees a contraction in the coming four quarters. Most are anchored around 2.5 percent, which is slow but positive. There appears to be some divergence…
…file a complaint, bad deeds are likely to go unpunished. A lot of complaints are settled privately without any regulatory authorities and when a firm settles with an aggrieved client,…
…investor! Glancing at the holdings, I recognized some of the companies, but most of them are mid cap companies. There were a few large cap stocks, but among the 80…
…shares investor that they borrowed them from. A short seller buys low and sells high, but not in the usual order. Herbalife was a multi-level marketing company selling shakes and…
…previous generation, have much lower fees than the previous generation, and have some level of regulatory scrutiny. I didn’t trust the crypto brokerages and exchanges, which seemed like the Wild…
…actual results compare to these estimates will have a huge impact on market prices in the coming weeks. We often say that markets ‘price in’ certain information, like earnings. So,…
…as opposed to it as I used to be, I just don’t think it’s great protection. Commodities I’ve written several times before that we dodged a real bullet with commodities.…
…hike interest rates, which caused stocks and bonds to fall, and we feel inflation in our everyday lives. This chart breaks inflation down into its big components to try and…
…come in higher and others who think lower, but on average, they think about what the market does, which makes sense since the market incorporated prices from all investors, not…
…2016 election that brought Donald Trump into the White House. Trump, along with the already Republican Congress, created tax cuts that benefitted companies, especially smaller, more domestic companies that weren’t…