Long-term trends grow from short term trends. We attampt to determine the short term trends and where they are pointing.
Often governments and corporations need to raise capital for a multitude of reasons. To do this they have several channels available. They can borrow from banks, issue stock or borrow from investors or they can issue debt securities in the form of bonds. Many investors (called bond holders) purchase these bonds and in return, the company gets a lump […]
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Editor’s Note: Anyone who has ever taken Economics 101 knows that the free market is more efficient than top down governmental planning at efficiently distributing goods and services at the lowest possible price. But often governmental bureaucrats have their own agenda that doesn’t include efficiency (or low price) as a priority. How would you feel if some government
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Editor’s Note: In today’s interview Alex Daly talks with former Reagan budget director David Stockman about Austerity, the FED, housing, debt, the economy, the stock market, bonds, and much more. Here are a few of David’s excellent quotes from the interview: [The FED is] being run by people who are clueless as to how to get
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DRIPs Many companies which pay dividends on their stock also offer dividend reinvestment plans, or DRIPs. Receiving a quarterly dividend check is nice, of course, but you’re probably not going to be receiving much at once, and many of us would be inclined to fritter that extra cash away. DRIPs help you make more effective
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2012 has been a tough year for people around the world. With the European debt crisis and high unemployment rates in the U.S., it is hard to decide where to invest to keep your money safe and to earn some interest without getting yourself into financial trouble. It is a fact that in order to make money
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Tax Deferred Retirement Income Being able to live a comfortable life once you retire is easier said than done in today’s economy. Many people who thought they were going to be able to retire were caught off-guard when the financial markets took a turn for the worse. While there are many different investing strategies that
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Editor’s Note: In the following excellent article Brandon Smith argues that world-wide, Socialism is a failure and that America can’t afford it and therefore it can’t be implemented. I’m not so sure. Politicians are known for implementing things we can’t afford and the consequences often take longer to be realized than a thinking person would
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Editor’s Note: Although this article specifically mentions events in the U.K. it is equally applicable to events and situations in the U.S. I just finished reading best selling author Michael Lewis’ excellent book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine which fully details the inside workings of the U.S. SubPrime Bond market that led up to the 2008
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These days, when we hear about “debt” in the news media, it is often Greece’s debt that is the topic of discussion. According to the media it seems that Greece’s debe must be way out of proportion with the rest of the world. Many experts believe that no matter how much austerity is imposed Greece will never be able to repay
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Students with a small amount of savings on the side might want to consider putting their nest egg in secure investments so that it grows over time. A savings account from a bank will hardly accrue any interest, and a CD will often yield little more. The obvious choices left are stocks and bonds, two of
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