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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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My Comments: The folks behind this headline is Kiplinger, the people who publish the magazine about money. Ever since I began to offer meaningful Social Security advice to clients and prospective clients, I’ve been sensitive to all the ideas that are circulating out there. These 10 Things are presented in a slide show where you …
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My Comments: By the time you read this, the State of the Union Address earlier may render these thoughts useless. On the other hand, our government, bound as it is by the language of the Constitution, is supposed to work in our collective best interest. And that still leaves a lot of room for biased …
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My Comments: By now you probably know there is a movement afoot to raise the minimum wage and that President Obama allowed as how he was going to include this idea for all contracts awarded by the Federal Government going forward. By now you also know that I’m no longer a young man, having read …
My Comments: At some point last year I ran across this and found it interesting. So I saved it for when I needed something to talk about. And today is one of those days! Dull, rainy and cold! It’s another example of what at one point appears to be something locked in stone but over …
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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 …
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My Comments: Tonight there will be a State of the Union Address. I read that it will include references to income inequality. Many might argue why this is important. If the vast majority of us have only enough money to sustain ourselves, with our time and energy focused on simply staying alive, it leaves little …
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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 …
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