There is a lot of good news in today’s economic numbers but you couldn’t tell by talking to the average person. According to a survey by the American Psychological Association,…
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Last year I speculated that 2015 was going to be a tougher year for equities than what we’ve been used to seeing and gold prices would rebound. So far 2015…
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If you thought the volatility in the first month of 2015 has been wild so far, that was just the warm up act. This week promises to bring even more…
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For investors saying that 2015 started off with a bang would be a massive understatement. While it was fairly easy to see that volatility was coming, the size of the…
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Anyone flying regularly knows that sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach when the fasten safety belt sign comes on and the captain informs us that we’re in for…
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One of the more frustrating aspects to investing is that there are many counter-intuitive forces at work in the economic world. One of those developments that’s hard for people to…
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The stock market simply can’t keep going up forever. On the surface that’s a statement we would all agree is true in the abstract but not terribly useful as investment…
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The landscape of things that intrude on your life has quietly changed over the last 30 years. Since the 1980s the focus has been on government intrusion but there are…
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Predicting the future is always a risky enterprise because the future has a way of making fools of us all. That’s particularly true when it comes to investing. If we…
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By the officially accepted standard, the U.S. is now the number two economy in the world. To be sure there are people now arguing that the standard isn’t fair or…