Bond funds have experienced a huge leap in popularity recently. While bond funds can be a useful tool, it is important that we understand their proper uses to get the most of them. A lot of people invest in stocks as their primary holding, and they understand pretty well how stocks work and what they […]

After the market enthusiastically rose after hearing what normally would bad news, Donald Trump had more bad news for them, and this time the news was unequivocally bad. One day after seeing people’s hope of further interest rate cuts by the Fed set aside, they got some numbers that they could hang their hopes upon […]

The Fed announced its decision and outlook on interest rates Wednesday afternoon, and we got exactly what was alluded to. Some wished for more and were left disappointed. We would think it quite normal that people on the street might not understand the actions of the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee very well, perhaps thinking […]

California’s Pacific Gas and Electric, or PG&E, is the nation’s largest utility. It went bankrupt in January over massive potential lawsuits. Is it worth a gamble now? For whatever reason, California’s wildfires have been particularly brutal over the last couple of seasons. Many believe that global warming is to blame, and if that is the […]

There is a view out there that stock markets, as well as other financial markets, should somehow be shielded from speculation. Speculation is all that these markets do though. Some people believe that financial markets engage in a lot of “useless speculation.” It is curious that we would ever use the terms “useless” and “speculation” […]

Economist Paul Shea of Miller Tabak has spoken out about Senator Elizabeth Warren’s recent prognostications of doom for the economy, believing that her view is overstated. Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren claims to have predicted the economic collapse of 2008 well in advance, and she is now telling us that something similar […]

We tend to focus a lot on economic data and projections to predict where markets will be heading in the future. Investor behavior plays a big role in these outcomes as well. There is no question that economic trends do play a significant role in shaping long-term equity curves, as better economic times mean that […]

Chip stocks are up 40% this year on average, which means that this sector has grown twice as much as the S&P 500 index. Does this mean that we should be afraid? Fundamental analysts have a natural tendency to believe that stocks have a limited amount of growth that they can see over a certain […]

We normally see interest rate cuts by the Fed as expansionary, and this only makes sense because this increases money supply. Could this end up decreasing it though? People usually think of economics as a science, and it is in a sense, although it would be more correct to call it both an art and […]

The longer a bull market runs, the more nervous a lot of people get about it ending. At least at the moment, there is nothing even close to the appeal of holding common stock. Whoever came up with the phrase “what goes up must come down” certainly wasn’t a stock investor. It is well known […]