While investors normally applaud increases in wages, as this does indicate a growing economy, Morgan Stanley analysts are concerned that this may even contribute to a recession. Seeing both a growth in jobs and a growth in wages is something that investors find pretty appealing, as these are inflationary pressures that stimulate economic growth. The […]
Gold as an investment has been in a real rut over the past 6 years, a period of time where it hasn’t gained a thing. Analyst Chris Terry thinks it is due for a revival soon. There’s just not a lot of excitement with gold these days, with investors at least. 6 years ago, gold […]
Investors are currently trying to decide between keeping more of their money in stocks or look to diversify more with bonds. There’s more to bonds than just treasuries though. Investors using bonds to hedge their stock positions is a very popular strategy, and one that is well-promoted by the investment industry. The idea here is […]
Forced to decide between funding their pension plans and other government spending, U.S. states have chosen to neglect their pension liabilities. The problem is growing larger. Governments, by nature it seems, spend quite a bit more than they take in. We could even say that this is the nature of democratic governments, where parties compete […]
A lot of people are concerned with the effects of climate change, and although this process may seem to be so gradual as to not affect investing, Jeremy Grantham doesn’t think so. Jeremy Grantham, now in his eighties, has been at this game for a long time, and created one of the world’s first index […]
A lot of people are looking at bond yields as an early warning for a coming recession. What we should be looking at is the credit market, as this isn’t a correlation, it’s the cause. If we’re worried about a recession, looking at the last one we had, the Great one, can be pretty instructive […]
While many investors are sitting back and hoping that the Fed may do more to stimulate us out of our current economic slowdown, the Fed may not see the need for any of this. If we’re invested in stocks, as many people are, or even if we are just concerned generally with the state of […]
When people think of valuable precious metals, gold immediately comes to mind, along with palladium and platinum. Rhodium is actually now worth more than any of them. Rhodium isn’t a precious metal that many people have that familiar with, although they might have seen it used in jewelry to plate silver. Silver tends to tarnish, […]
Apple had been one of the stocks that really suffered during the last major market selloff. It has come back a long way since, but seems poised to move up even more now. Apple stock took it on the chin more than most during the broad selloff that the fourth quarter of 2018 brought, going […]
Can we look at the rate that people are refinancing their mortgages and conclude this will or even could cause a housing market crash? Some people do, although it makes no sense. The 2007 housing market crash still haunts many people it seems. This did indeed spawn an economic event of catastrophic proportions, so it’s […]