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 […]

Technical analysis can be a very useful tool if used appropriately, when used to mark out trends and trend reversals, but we need to make sure that we don’t try to do too much with it. Many people view the task of technical analysis is to use chart patterns to determine how an asset’s price […]

If you start with the hypothesis that the price of stocks should represent the overall economy, maybe it’s not so strange that you would try to blame someone when you are proven wrong. There’s no question that economic crises and bear markets with stocks can happen together, and it’s actually pretty unusual that we see […]

It’s not that the Nasdaq has hit another bear market or anything, and the 1.1% that this index dropped this week is not even meaningful. The bears are really taking notice though. People seem to be paying a lot of attention to the Nasdaq this week, given that the other two major indexes, the S&P […]

It should not come as a surprise to anyone that investors allow their political biases to influence their investing views and decisions. We need to understand what biases we have. People struggle enough with trying to figure out what they should be doing with their stock portfolios to want to make this task even more […]

Fisher Investments is a private money management firm located in Camas, Washington. It was founded in 1979 by Ken Fisher, who served as the company’s CEO until 2016, although he still serves as Chairman and co-CEO. They are a pretty big operation for a regional independent, with $100 billion under management and 3,500 employees, with […]

Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden has been promising to build back better. Better seems to include throwing a lot of money away on his pet projects. It is no secret that the Republican Party in the U.S. is known for its greater focus on economic prosperity overall, where the Democratic Party has other priorities. It […]