Social media company Twitter continues to grow its user base considerably. They are a huge household name. The most important ingredient is left out though, the good profit part. Twitter will be soon marking its seventh anniversary of their stock being traded publicly, and while the number seven is thought by many to be a […]
The protests surrounding the killing of George Floyd continue with no end in sight. While the damage has been contained so far, the lack of an effective response is concerning. There is a special trust that we convey upon our peace officers, where we give them greater powers than civilians have, arming them and allowing […]
Economist David Rosenberg might be the king of the bears, predicting recessions and bear markets year after year without fail. He is painting a very grim picture now. Earlier this year, before all of this current crisis emerged, we ran an article on the bearish views of economist David Rosenberg of Rosenberg Research, a new […]
After a disappointing 2019, the top-ranked South Dakota Retirement System did some housekeeping in the first quarter of 2020, including buying a million shares of an index ETF. State pension funds control a lot of money, and the fact that tiny South Dakota, the 47th most populous state in the country with only 884,000 people, […]
It often doesn’t take much to scare financial markets, and the way that they interpreted Fed Chairman Jay Powell’s comments on the prospects of negative interest rates proves this. The very idea of a central bank lending money to banks at negative interest rates is a very recent one, and one that isn’t even that […]
April’s job numbers came in on Friday, and 20.5 million losing their jobs during the month should concern us plenty. Neel Kashkari of the Minneapolis Fed says it will get much worse. Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari certainly qualifies as one of the Fed’s most outspoken members, and readers might remember our doing an […]
Given that the economy has taken such a hammering lately, many have already feasted on the rebound in stocks. The rebound in treasury yields is more exciting if we play this right. If we are serious about achieving success with investing, we need to always be comparing the desirability of various approaches. Investors and the […]
ETFs can be a nice tool for investors to participate in markets that they normally wouldn’t, like WTI oil futures. We need to look at the ingredients of these ETFs first. Your average investor doesn’t pay much attention to the futures markets, whether this be oil futures or any of the many other commodities and […]
The S&P 500 is the most popular index fund by far among investors, because they think it’s better to be more diversified, to manage risk. Reality tells a different story though. The world of investing is riddled with so many myths that it would even be fair to categorize the whole thing as mythology. There […]
There is a wide range of opinion about how bad the economic crisis that we are in will be and if and when we will ever recover. Quantitative analysis can shed real light on this. In the financial world, we normally think of quantitative analysis, or QA, as the study of the movement of asset […]