The numbers are in for U.S. second quarter GDP, and it dropping 32.9% on an annualized basis is the scariest one ever. The stock market hasn’t been scared though. Fear has played a bigger than normal role in 2020, whether that be the massive amount that COVID-19 produced, the panic that hit the stock market […]
Bad strategies die a slow death in the investment world, but they do eventually decay. The idea that book value bargains are a good idea isn’t quite dead yet it seems. Benjamin Graham is considered to be the father of value investing, a process of looking for bargains with stocks that have fallen out of […]
It just got a lot easier to understand how far apart the opposing stimulus views of the two parties are. Democrats want $3 trillion, while Republicans only want to spend a trillion. The first time around, back when the economy was placed in quarantine, it wasn’t so easy to get the Democrats and Republicans to […]
Gold’s rally in 2011 was one for the ages, where the price reached $1,889 an ounce. Many wondered how long it would take us to get back there, but wonder no more. Gold isn’t always the best place to have your money, in spite of how so many people throw money into it blindly, paying […]
More and more people are “protesting” against the disproportionate growth of the top 5 stocks in the S&P 500. Amid a sea of nonsense, there’s a valid concern buried within. It’s not so difficult to understand how publicly traded financial assets work, and all we have to do is describe them in the way that […]
State Street’s SPDR sector ETFs were the first to allow investors to invest in S&P 500 stocks by sector, and still are the most popular. Vanguard is right on their tail now though. Many investors take a diversified approach to their stock investments, where they seek a wide exposure to different types of stocks in […]
With so many stock market bashers on the Democratic side, investors need to really fear a sweep in November. If you like tax breaks with your investments, the bell tolls for thee. It should not come as a surprise to anyone that Joe Biden is now planning to get rid of preferential tax treatment with […]
2020 has been a year of extremes, between the pandemic, the lockdown, and the financial response. Joyce Chang of J.P. Morgan looks to prepare us for what’s coming next. There are all sorts of types of analysts in the financial world, and while most specialize in various types of investments, there are others which we […]
People working at home has provided the economy with a means to keep people working while distancing. Study at home does the opposite and shrinks employment. There haven’t been many benefits that have come out of the COVID-19 pandemic, where our response continues to punish our economy with plenty more pain in store as we […]
The huge bear market that hit stocks in 2000 is generally referred to as the tech bubble bursting, and some people are now in fear of the sky falling now in a similar fashion. With all the talk out there these days about the stock market allegedly moving toward another possible tech bubble bursting, we […]
