Markets seem to be rounding out 2021 swimmingly. Tech heavy S&P 500 is trading higher by more than 20% and we’re even starting to see some life out of diversifying asset classes such as emerging markets, international and, don’t look now, but even gold seems to...
The purpose of your emergency fund savings is to be there when you need it, not generate return. Still, it would be nice if these funds kept up with inflation so that the dollars you save there today have the same buying power when the time comes that you need them....
I’ve had the privilege of being a CNBC commentator for over 14 years now. Prior to Covid I would often travel to the studios in Englewood Cliffs and participate in a full hour show talking stocks, markets and the economy. Sometimes, I’ll write about how this all came...
Sometime during Covid we launched our first Zoom webinar entitled the Inflationary Freight Train. Many wondered just why we would be concerned about such a topic when the economy had screeched to a halt, consumer spending was nonexistent and inflation was nowhere to...
Several months ago we hosted a webinar entitled The Inflationary Freight Train. During our time together we looked at the history of monetary induced inflation going all the way back to the Roman Empire. We walked through the 1950s and the 1970s and landed on where we...
The economists got it wrong during and after the financial crisis because they incorrectly predicted where money would flow. You may remember the dire inflationary predictions during the experimental rounds of QE1, 2 and what turned out to be QE infinity. Their...
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