My Comments: Many of you have read my comments about interest rates lately. (Yesterday!) For many, many months, the Fed has used its powers to keep them low to encourage economic growth. Now that growth is again endemic, sooner rather than later, pressures will exist to cause interest rates to increase. The chart at the …
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Get Ready For The Biggest Margin Call In History
My Comments: Like a broken clock that is right twice every 24 hours, I’ve been talking about the probability of us having a severe market correction for the past 12 months or more. It’s obviously not happened yet. But every time I turn around, there are new observations from people who understand this better than …
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The First Sign of an Impending Crash
My Comments: Another in a littany of warnings about pending doom. It gets a little tiresome,doesn’t it? Especially when there are others who swear the signs are there for continued gains. My gut tells me this guy is probably right. By Jeff Clark Thursday, February 12, 2015 Investors have plenty of reasons to be afraid …
Stock Buybacks Are Killing the American Economy
My Comments: This is a helpful analysis if you are like me and worried about our financial future. Retirement planning and what to do with our money so it grows and remains safe for the future is what I do. I’m not sure I like it all the time, but at this stage of my …
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The Next Great Market Meltdown
My Comments: My hope for the future about this is that I will be wrong. But I’m also aware that hope is not a very effective investment strategy. So, apart from my hope that you and yours have a spectacular 2015, it’s tempered by my expectations of reality. This writer is well known to those …
5 Reasons Why You Should Be Afraid Of A Bear Market
My Comments: Until I found this, I had never heard of hedgewise.com. I make absolutely no assertion that they know what they are talking about. My personal solution for you is quite different from what you read below, but this part of life is almost always a guessing game. Oct. 30, 2014 http://www.hedgewise.com/ Summary • …
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Wealth Managers Enlist Savvy Spy Software to Map Portfolios
My Comments: I’ve been playing this financial game now for almost 40 years. And like so much in today’s world, it’s very different today than it was then. Technology forces us to embrace new thoughts and ways to deal with so much in life. When it comes to managing your money, my role as an …
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3 Market Warning Signs Predict 20% Stock Tumble
My Comments: No need for any commentary from me. Just draw your own conclusions, and hope that if the author is right, you’ve talked with me about how to make money when everyone around you is losing theirs. On the other hand, essentially this same argument was made last April and yet the crash has …
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5 QLAC Questions and Answers
My Comments: QLAC? What the heck is a QLAC? By Jeffrey Levine / July 18, 2014 On July 1, 2014 the Treasury Department released the long-awaited final regulations for Qualifying Longevity Annuity Contracts (QLACs). These new annuities will offer advisors a unique tool to help clients avoid outliving their money. The QLAC rules, however, are …
Increased Consumer Spending Driving Strong Economic Growth In USA
My Comments: On Thursday, July 30 the market dropped 300 points. The blogosphere and media were all a chatter about "was this the start of the correction?". Who knows ?!? It illustrates why those of us who profess to be financial advisors are more in the dark than you are. Here we are talking about …
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