My Comments: I've been a supporter of the PPACA or if you prefer, ObamaCare, since the beginning. My belief in it is based on the trend in place where health care costs consumed an ever increasing share of our national GDP and sooner or later would come a sticky end. Whether the PPACA solves the …
Continue reading You Can Thank Ben Bernanke for 100% of the Stock Market Gains Since 2009
My Comments: For many years, more than I care to remember, I searched for wisdom from among the many magazines and more recently, the many emails that cross my desk on a daily basis. How and what was going to happen and how could I help my clients benefit from the insights that surely came …
My Comments: The other day, on February 17th, I had a post that explained how today is NOT 1929 all over again. If you found that story, and this chart interesting, then here is a follow up. Hopefully, it will help you navigate the waters as they are flowing today in 2014. Chris Ciovacco, Ciovacco …
Continue reading Checking In On The 1929 Stock Market Parallel
My Comments: Understanding how markets work over time is a very helpful skill set if you are advising clients about their money. Especially if they are worried about where money will come from to pay their bills far into the future. For many, the short term “noise” that comes from what one reads in papers …
Continue reading Treading Water: Four Economic & Market Trends Likely to Continue in 2014
My Comments: So, is it 1929 all over again? Is the world as we know it coming to an end? We're doomed, I tell you, DOOMED!. Well, maybe not. As a financial planner and investment advisor, I try to have something posted about investments at least once a week. I’m not sure if I’m successful, …
My Comments: The price of gasoline in this country has a huge influence on whether the economy grows or shrinks. (It is NEVER static.) We’ve all heard that with access to incredible reserves of natural gas, we as a nation are going to become a net exporter of fuel over the next decade or so. …
Continue reading Why North American Oil Prices Are Set For A Big Drop
My Comments: Yesterday, my blog post gave you lots of reasons to believe the world was coming to an end., at least for a while. Did you read all of it? Today, you only have to look at the headline above to think I’m either a raving lunatic or as puzzled as you and the …
Continue reading 5 Simple Reasons The U.S. Market Will Go Straight Up From Here
My Comments: Many of you have seen, or soon will when you get your January statements, that 2014 has so far been a bad year for the stock market. This is an article that suggests there is a pattern. I’m not convinced that what he says is not a coincidence, but then again, what happened …
Continue reading The 7-Year Cycle That Will Crush Uninformed Investors, Again
My Comments: I am both blessed and cursed for almost always believing the glass is half full rather than half empty. Right now, my bias is to say that another correction like we had in 2008-09 is NOT going to happen again during my lifetime. But that’s not to say the business cycle of ups …
Continue reading Correction Fears Are Overblown: Buy The Dip
The modest global recovery will endure, but market volatility is likely as the Fed tapers By Melanie Waddell / January 16, 2014 The economic outlook for the next 10 years will be one of resiliency, with the U.S. in 2014 and 2015 facing cyclical risks tilted toward better-than-trend growth for the first time since the …
Continue reading 7 Big Economic Predictions for Next 10 Years
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