Monthly Archives: August, 2021

Your Survival Guy: The Rolling Stones Drummer Charlie Watts

The drumming world lost a legend with the passing of The Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts. In 1989, when Your Survival Guy was a senior...

TRAFFIC JAM: Shipping Clogged at Major Ports

Shipping is clogged at many major American ports as corporations buy ahead to beat inflation and high holiday demand. Paul Berger reports in The...

An Inebriated Stock Market

If you are still scratching your head as to how a near bankrupt movie theater company (AMC) and video game store (GameStop) can still...

ETF Investing: Avoid the Madness of Crowds

Look at the huge money flowing into all the same stuff. This isn’t rocket science. At some point, when the fuel runneth dry—down, down,...

Will Fed Tapering Lead to Higher or Lower Bond Yields?

James Mackintosh, writing in the WSJ, outlines two possible outcomes for financial markets when the Fed decides to taper its bond buying program. While...

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Get Your Lazy Cash Working

As CDs come due, investors aren’t seeing CD yields...

The Power of a Compound Interest Table

Compound interest was described as the greatest mathematical discovery...

The Real Action of Compounding

As Your Survival Guy, my job is to share...

What the Chinese Are Learning from Russian Sanctions

Georgi Kantchev and Lingling Wei of The Wall Street...

China’s Biggest EV Maker Has a Side Hustle

Yang Jie of The Wall Street Journal tells his...

Is China Surpassing the West in the Arab World?

Edward White, Cheng Leng, Ahmed Al Omran, and Alex...

China’s Gold Discovery Could Be the Largest Ever

Tim Newcomb of Popular Mechanics reports that $83 billion...

Global NatGas Market Could Experience Tighter Supply-Demand

The US Energy Information Administration reports that the global...

According to Him, This Is When Investing Becomes Fun

Let’s revisit one of my all-time favorite pieces from...

What the Iran Situation Means for Gold

UPDATE 8.22.24: Tensions are once again high in the...