Low Interest Rates Threaten Insurers and Baby Boomers
Here you get a glimpse at the problems facing insurers and baby boomers thanks to the Fed’s zero percent interest rate policy as reported...
How to Survive the Calm before the Storm
Central banks are running this market. It’s not real. It feels like a ghost town. But what are investors to do? Well, you may...
Pensions Should be Fearful
This has a bad feel to me as Ben Eisen and Aaron Kuriloff report on pensions at the WSJ:
Some pension funds are seeking to...
RIP Roger Enrico
From the WSJ:
Born in the small town of Chisholm to Italian immigrants, Mr. Enrico won a scholarship to Babson College in Massachusetts, studying business...
Tiny Bubbles
Originally posted January 21, 2014.
Imagine outgoing Chairman Ben Bernanke joyfully wrapping things up at the Fed while humming “tiny bubbles make me feel happy”...
Assets Are Booming
With the Fed creating money out of thin air, real estate prices such as commercial and condos are going up like crazy especially in...
Bluefish!
Owen caught this beauty just outside of Newport harbor.
World in Crisis: Oil Shrugs and Heads below $100
Imagine only 10 years ago, before most Americans had heard of “hydro-fracking” or “horizontal drilling.” Imagine what a war in Iraq (the eighth largest...
Survey Says? Optimism Growing.
The NFIB Research Foundation’s survey of Small Business optimism ticked up this morning, continuing a trend of recovery from some of the worst readings...
Grateful for Cash
“You ask me where the four winds dwell
In Franklin's tower there hangs a bell
It can ring, turn night to day
Ring like fire when you...