Trading Short-term Pleasure for Long-term Pain
Should you take investment advice from the mainstream internet (if I can coin a phrase)? Bloomberg posted an article on their website yesterday with...
Bespoke Gold
You should be able to buy a fine suit with an ounce of gold. Good luck with that at Marc Allen.
Over the years I’ve...
VIDEO: BP Energy Outlook
For a moment put aside the impracticality of trying to forecast anything for 20 years, and listen to BP’s chief economist Spencer Dale explain...
The Most Bullish Economic Indicator Nobody is Talking About
Household formation in the U.S. is soaring to heights not seen since the economic recovery began. According to the Census Bureau, over the last...
Gold for all in India
Big changes could be coming to the gold market in the coming Indian budget. Sources have signaled that the government is likely to cut...
How Much can you Lose in the Stock Market?
If your portfolio isn't properly diversified, the answer is a lot, but even if you craft a diversified equity portfolio your losses can be...
Greek Drama: The Final Act?
Greece is back on the front pages of the financial press. Why is a country whose GDP is a rounding error in the $75...
40 Years is a Helluva Long-time
Cashing in on the Fed’s zero percent interest rates while the going is still good, Microsoft is issuing $10.75 billion in bonds—an increase from...
The Monday Melee: Greenspan, Beer and Budgets
Greenspan: Political Crisis Coming
What We're Reading:
What Democrats and the CBO Don’t Get (The Wall Street Journal)
The one percent earn the same share of income...
What are They Waiting For?
The January jobs numbers were released this morning. The monthly gain in payroll employment topped expectations by a modest amount, but there were 147,000...