Monthly Archives: August, 2013

High Yield Risk

I was listing to WEEI sports radio last week when I heard an advertisement pushing structured settlement investments. The juicy 5%-7% yields are hard...

Durable Goods Drop: Good or Bad for Stocks?

Durable goods orders cratered last month. The Bloomberg analyst poll had predicted a drop of 4%, but the final report showed a shocking decline...

Make the Best Use of Tax Deferred Accounts

A recent article in Financial Planning noted that investors can generate 20 to 50 basis points each year in return by properly allocating assets...

VIDEO: Williams: Keeping `Open Mind’ Into Next Fed Meeting

https://player.ooyala.com/player.js?embedCode=w3bG94ZDqq4hZmTTGo-MaQoZe9ogBLMf&playerBrandingId=8a7a9c84ac2f4e8398ebe50c07eb2f9d&width=640&deepLinkEmbedCode=w3bG94ZDqq4hZmTTGo-MaQoZe9ogBLMf&height=360&thruParam_bloomberg-ui=FALSE Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams talks about the U.S. economy and the outlook for central bank...

VIDEO: Fed’s Lockhart: Won’t Rule Out September Tapering

https://player.ooyala.com/player.js?embedCode=NqOW14ZDplTw6YFbBH648e_zRQVgVata&playerBrandingId=8a7a9c84ac2f4e8398ebe50c07eb2f9d&width=640&deepLinkEmbedCode=NqOW14ZDplTw6YFbBH648e_zRQVgVata&height=360&thruParam_bloomberg-ui=FALSE Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Dennis Lockhart talks about the prospect of the central bank starting tapering its bond-buying...

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How’s Your Margin of Safety for Fixed Income?

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Vanguard, Bogle, Young and Your First Grade Teacher

I know that you know Vanguard lowered its fees...

Startups Challenge China’s Rare Earth Stranglehold

Robert Wright of the Financial Times reports that HyProMag,...

U.S. Seeks Access to Ukrainian Resources

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will visit Ukraine this week...

Bleeding Cash: How Tariffs Could Push Chinese Firms to the Brink

According to Hannah Miao of The Wall Street Journal,...

Underinsured and Overexposed: LA’s Wildfires and the Jumbo Loan Dilemma

Ann Choi, Yizhu Wang, and John Gittelsohn of Bloomberg...

Trump’s Trade War Deepens Central Bank Divide

Sam Fleming, Valentina Romei, Ian Smith, and Claire Jones of the Financial Times...