…portion of your savings so you have a “guaranteed paycheck” (adding a warning that these can be complex and should be purchased only from a fiduciary). Hold a cash reserve:…
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Five Questions: Modern Monetary Theory with Cullen Roche
…policy like this were to have an effect on inflation, then I would assume it would also have an effect on Federal Reserve Policy and that may lead the Fed…
Swedroe Offers Perspective to Panicky Investors
…U.S. rates, even a 4% intermediate-term Treasury rate could create pressures on stock prices;” Trade policy uncertainty; “Massive” federal budget deficits; Low unemployment rate; Geopolitical risks and uncertainty around the…
Drunkenmiller and Warsh: Perspective on Fed Tightening
In an article for The Wall Street Journal, co-authors Stanley Druckenmiller (chairman and CEO of Duquesne Family Office LLC) and former Federal Reserve Board member Kevin Warsh argue that the…
Seth Klarman's Bleak Warning Chills Davos
…dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency. Klarman writes: “There is no way to know how much debt is too much, but America will inevitably reach an inflection point whereupon…
The Case Against Value Stocks
…argument is that the Federal Reserve and other central banks have changed the game by engaging in large-scale asset purchases. They have encouraged risk taking without the consideration of fundamentals….
Flat Yield Curve Inverted in December
…Federal Reserve on notice that the end of its tightening cycle is approaching.” The five-year treasury was doing better, the article notes, explaining that “investors anticipate the end of the…
Asia Shines Among Emerging Market Peers
…headwinds like Federal Reserve policy tightening,” and that Malaysia’s current-account surplus, stable valuations and economic growth outlook earned it top ranking based on metrics ranging from “growth prospects to the…
Market Observations from Bill Miller
…becomes problematic. The U.S. dollar, he says, “is a reserve currency, which is very different from economies that don’t have a reserve currency and are reliant on markets to fund…
Bridgewater's New Brain is a Millennial Woman
…150-person operation that Paul Volcker has described as producing ‘more relevant statistics and analyses than the Federal Reserve,’ ” a role she assumed at only 31 years of age, making…