Jeremy Jones

Jeremy Jones, CFA; is editor of Young Research’s Global Investment Strategy and Chief Investment officer at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. His column focuses on global economic and financial market conditions.

Billionaire Bond King Bill Gross Slams Ben Bernanke

Bill Gross is out with a scathing new Investment Outlook on Dr. Bernanke’s misguided monetary activism. Below are the highlights. You can read the letter...

Volcker Delivers Punishing Blow to Bernanke Fed

In a speech this week to the Economic Club of New York former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker delivered a punishing blow to the...

Will Summer Spell the End of the Bull Market?

As U.S stock prices continue their liquidity-fueled ascent, the rationalizations for remaining bullish on the U.S. stock market become more perverse by the day....

Printing the Path to Prosperity

The Fed is engaged in an unbounded money-printing campaign at a rate of $85 billion per month, but they aren't the only money-printing bank...

Covert Global Currency Wars

“The lessons for the present are clear. Today most advanced industrial economies remain, to varying extents, in the grip of slow recoveries from the...

Investors Ride Shotgun in Bernanke’s Free Money Truck

With a strong start out of the gates in 2013, U.S. stocks have now almost fully recovered from the devastating 57% plunge during the...

Stocks Soar: Don’t Miss the Boat

It seems Mr. Bernanke’s bludgeoning of individual investors is finally starting to pay dividends. Four years of pinning short-term interest rates at zero with...

Confidence Cause for Concern

The Conference Board released the latest Consumer Confidence numbers this morning. The Consumer Confidence Index tumbled to 65.1 in December compared to a downwardly...

Over the Threshold

The Fed held its last meeting of the year yesterday and announced two important changes in policy. First, as was widely expected the FOMC...

How to Increase Shareholder Return Today

The Wall Street Journal ran an article yesterday titled Top U.S. Firms Are Cash-Rich Abroad, Cash-Poor at Home. The piece pointed out that American...