My Comments: Geopolotical events almost always influence the world of investments. Today, global economic health, or lack of it, dictates to some extent how we invest our money, where we invest our money, and what we can expect going forward. All of us saw recently how the ISIS jihadists in Iraq caused the price of …
Category: Global Economics
Removing Saddam Hussein Did Not Cause This Crisis
My Comments: The price of oil is increasing. The news is full of both the World Cup and Iraq. How will any of this affect our investments? And, of course, as always, it depends. At first glance one might dismiss the author as expressing a self-serving platitude. On second glance, you remember he rose to …
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Obama: Prevaricating On Foreign Policy
My Comments: It’s hard not to be tired and uninterested in the speeches of a President now well into his second and last term as President. Never mind that I voted for him twice and have a generally favorable opinion of his efforts on our behalf. Foreign policy is not something that does much for …
Capitalism: Looking Past The Bottom Line
My Comments: If this author is right, then this issue will have an impact on the mid-term elections this fall as well as the elections in 2016. The lasting legacy of the Obama administration will be the PPACA or ObamaCare legislation. When it was enacted, our cost of health care was increasing much faster than …
Keeping the NSA in Perspective
My Comments: This won’t interest some of you, which is OK. Others will recognize it as part of the cosmos that includes our economy and our political environment. These things contribute to the process that results in the amount of money we have to live our lives the way we want to. I’ve long said …
US Economy: Blame Misaligned Policies, Not Structural Flaws
My Comments: I recently engaged in what turned out to be a mindless discussion on LinkedIn that started with the question “Who Creates Inflation?” My comments and those of several others offered our thoughts that it was a “what” that creates inflation and not a “who”. It was soon apparent that the leader and some …
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The SWIFT way to get Putin to scale back his ambitions
My Comments: How many of you have heard of SWIFT? Do you recall it was used in 2012 with Iran? I’ve commented earlier about the events in Ukraine and how they may effect us and our investments. Not to mention the bad feelings they generate in my head given my personal history. While the talking …
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Coastal Dwellers Should Take Their Own Chances
My Comments: When I graduated from college, I decided to stay where I had lived the past four years. I’ve never once regretted that choice. Living in Florida and NOT on the coast might be a good thing, now that global warming is in our collective thoughts. But most of my life is now behind …
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Uncertainty, Not China, is Replacing US Power
My Comments: Do you lay awake at night, worrying about this? Me either. But global political dynamics will influence our lives, and the lives of those we love, in ways that cannot be predicted. I’ve been part of the world of financial planning and investments for almost four decades and over that span, the extent …
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Five Historic Sites That Are Most Vulnerable to Sea-level Rise
My Comments: In keeping with the spirit of the recently released National Climate Assessment report, here is an article that identifies five sites that by the end of this century will likely be underwater. Especially if nothing is done soon to limit greenhouse gasses across the planet. You know, the stuff that some on the …
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Helping Define Your Financial Future 