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A study by the GAO says that 401(k) plans with outdated rules about when employees become eligible to participate and how they receive matching...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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The Fed Unleashed a Force it Can’t Control

After the Fed told banks it was OK to...

How EPA Rules Shape Gasoline Costs

Motor gasoline in the US is specially blended based...

Bitcoin Down 70% from High

A central bank official quoted by the Wall Street...

IEA Warns of Supply Shocks and Falling Demand in 2026

The April 2026 Oil Market Report by the International...

A Furious Rally

The S&P 500 has rallied furiously from its October...

SHENZHEN, China—A Sea of Skyscrapers too Massive to be Rolled Back

Here the WSJ explains Shenzhen’s deeply entrenched electronics manufacturing...

Is China’s Economy Addicted to Real Estate?

In The Wall Street Journal, Nathaniel Taplin explains the...

A $65-Billion Bet

I was listening to Bloomberg radio the other day...