Monthly Archives: August, 2024
MY PAYDAY INDICATOR: Are You Getting Paid to Invest?
The market believes the Federal Reserve is poised to cut rates in September and that the Fed could cut them by 75 basis points...
Raising Food Prices Have Hit Consumer Limits
Jesse Newman and Heather Haddon of The Wall Street Journal report that companies are dangling $5 burger meals and flakier biscuits to encourage consumer...
Vanguard Leadership and Fund Ownership: You Have Choices
Your Survival Guy was recently told that Vanguard no longer wants to be in the administration business for SEP IRAs, and therefore, accounts would...
U.S. Jobless Claims Jump
Jarrell Dillard of Bloomberg reports that initial applications for jobless benefits rose to 249,000 last week, the most since August 2023. Dillard writes:
Initial applications...
The Juice Has Been Squeezed
Keeping rates higher for longer would be the right thing to do. But it turns out that the Fed will likely join the political...