Bond Banking Aftershock
All the banking turmoil—both real and perceived—sent waves through the bond market. Two-year U.S. treasury bonds experienced a 1.2% rate drop over five trading days. Depending on how you look … Read More
Do Declining Diesel Prices Predict a Recession?
Before the devastating tsunamis of 2004 rolled over the coastlands around the Indian Ocean, local animals seemed to sense the coming disaster. Eyewitnesses reported that elephants moved to higher ground, … Read More
The Downside to Target Date Funds
Legendary infomercial pitchman Ron Popeil wasn’t just the inventor of the Chop-O-Matic, the Pocket Fisherman, and Mr. Microphone. He was also the creator of one of the greatest slogans in … Read More
Celebrating Groundbreaking Research with Giants of Finance
Celebrating Groundbreaking Research with Giants of Finance In this article from Dimensional This year marks the anniversaries of research that laid the foundation for a new way to invest. Merton’s … Read More
Spending in the Golden Years Report and Analysis
The normal retirement planning models say that when we retire, we will spend the same amount of money out of our retirement portfolios each year on living expenses, travel, eating … Read More
2023 Second Quarter Investment Report
Fears of an imminent recession are getting kind of old at this writing; any investors who retreated some or all of their portfolios to the sidelines in anticipation that the … Read More
Can You Predict a Recession?
What if somebody could tell you the exact date when the next recession will begin, so you could get out of the market and wait it out. Wouldn’t that be … Read More
Why are Financial Forecast Often Faulty
Individuals with advanced economic degrees and economists that are employed (sometimes at astronomical salaries) at the big brokerage firms have inside data that tells them where the economy is going. … Read More
Diminishing Stock Market
Back in 1997, investors could choose from more than 8,000 publicly-traded companies listed on the various exchanges. Today, that number is just over 4,000. What’s going on? A variety of … Read More
More Jobs U.S. Means a Healthy Economy
If companies are hiring, then presumably they are growing and making money. If they’re laying off workers, then that might suggest that their sales and revenues are declining. Oddly, the … Read More