The Commodities Whale
In a recent IMF working paper, author Shaun K. Roache provides readers with some valuable insight on China’s role in world commodity markets. It...
Stocks for the Long-Run
Jeremy Siegel, the famous Wharton School finance professor coined the phrase “stocks for the long-run” with his identically titled 1994 best seller, Stocks for...
Income Investors Beware: This Asset Class is a Guaranteed Loser
Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that the U.S. Treasury sold $24 billion of 10-year notes at a record low auction yield. The bonds were sold at...
The Quarterly Earnings Con Job
Is it just me or has the quarterly earnings season become nauseating? At Young Research we try to spend as little time as possible...
Fear and Greed: Read the Market like Warren Buffet
If you tune into to CNBC regularly, you’ve likely come across a segment where the commentators are talking about the VIX Index. You may...
A Dubious Tax Proposal
President Obama is on the campaign trail promoting the Buffett Rule that the Senate will likely vote on in coming days. The Buffett Rule...
Facebook’s Fatal Flaw Exposed
Has he gone mad? Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO announced this week that his social networking company is buying Instagram. Facebook is paying $1 billion—a...
Hubris and Monetary Policy: A Toxic Mix
I stumbled upon this video of Laurence Meyer, the Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director of Macroeconomic Advisers, a mainstream economic modeling and forecasting firm....
Bernanke’s Clever Ruse
It’s official. The Bernanke Fed has gone mad. Less than 24 hours after the biggest stock market sell-off of the year (a scant 1.5%...
Dr. Bernanke’s Scorched Earth Monetary Policy Claims another Victim
It seems the Fed’s perpetual zero percent interest rate policy is not only robbing retirees and responsible savers of income; it is also costing...