Monthly Archives: November, 2016

Annuities Hammered by Conflict of Interest Rules (Finally)

Variable annuity sales have been hammered this year. A new report from Cerulli Associates projects that sales will continue to fall at an annualized...

Is Cyber Monday Infected with More Unscrupulous Fakes?

Today is “Cyber Monday.” It’s the Internet’s response to Small Business Saturday, in which people are encouraged to shop online. Every year people are...

Is Your 401(k) Plan Cutting Your Retirement Short?

A study by the GAO says that 401(k) plans with outdated rules about when employees become eligible to participate and how they receive matching...

The Cuba Trade

Here MarketWatch reports that Fidel Castro’s death is causing the shares of a Cuba related mutual fund to soar. Investors in a fund with the...

Rising Rates a Threat to Commercial Real Estate

The Wall Street Journal reports on the risks a reversal in interest rates presents to the bubble conditions in commercial real estate created by...

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Thank Goodness for Coal

Thank Goodness for Coal

Despite the best attempts of the Obama and Biden...

Auto Industry on Edge: Aluminum Shortage and Geopolitics Halt US Production

A combination of supply chain disruptions, including an aluminum...

Why Brands Are Getting Creepy to Win Over Gen Z

Jasmine Glasheen of The Robin Report tells her readers...

Developer Plans to Turn Infamous Pennhurst Asylum Into AI Data Center

Real estate developer Derek Strine plans to transform the...

DOE Acts to Prevent Winter Storm Blackouts

The US Department of Energy issued emergency orders under...

The Fed Should Be Careful with Lower Rates

From August 15, 1971, the day President Nixon officially...

Seasonal Demand and Sanctions Reshape Global Crude Tanker Markets

Crude oil tanker shipping rates reached multi-year highs in...

Panama Seeks to Fill Empty Canal with LNG Tankers

Marianna Parraga, Elida Moreno, and Curtis Williams of Reuters...

Project Janus Marks Army’s Shift to Mobile, Sustainable Nuclear Energy

The US Army plans to install small nuclear reactors...

The Power of a Compound Interest Table

The principles written about here are as true today...