It’s natural to look at returns this year and want to stop the bleeding, but that would mean selling and taking the risk that the markets will suddenly startle
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The personal savings rate was just 4.4% in April, that’s the lowest rate recorded since September 2008. That 4.4% compares to 6% earlier this year and upwards
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The world may never be quite as dependent on oil production in the future as it has been during the recent unpleasantness at the pump. Currently, renewable
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When the market is soaring one day and plummeting the next stress and anxiety can easily creep into our daily thoughts and actions. Focusing on the ‘little’
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If we are, indeed, experiencing a recession, it is an unusual one, triggered not by the usual decline in corporate activity and job losses
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Bitcoin just finished its worst month in the 12 years that it’s been available on exchanges, losing more than 38% of its value in June. This comes amid
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When the economy runs a deficit, that means that the government is making more Treasury securities available to the investing public—we lend money to Uncle Sam
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Consumer sentiment is the weakest it's been in a decade, dragged lower by the highest inflation in four decades. Google searches for "recession" are on the rise
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The stated reason for the rate increase is to squeeze inflation out of the economy. The logic is somewhat complicated, but the simple explanation is that
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It may be easier to stick to your financial goals if you have a strong investment philosophy in place.
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The anxiety that investors experience (us too, by the way) is about losing the ability to pay for our future lifestyle. To address that anxiety directly, you
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