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Invest in AMERICA: Enjoy A Guaranteed 13.5% Return
Who wouldn’t love to discover such a headline? After all, is there anything out there that pays any kind of safe, legitimate return that even comes close… and with a guarantee? Seems highly unlikely, and yet it’s actually quite true.
While this is not...
Improving Market Sentiment: Why You Should Be Leery of It
By Michael Lombardi, MBA
The bear market is doing an excellent job with investors’ attitude towards the stock market. We can see it in the market’s performance…
So far this year, the S&P 500 has gained 4.6%—its best January start in 15 years! Mar...
Money in 2012
With the New Year in, people are starting to think about how their finances may be shaped by critical events occurring worldwide in 2012. There are several major elections coming up not just in the United States but abroad as well. There is also much fret...
Gaining from the Inflation/Deflation Conundrum
Amid the Chaos of the Financial Markets and The Economy, One Essential Key to Successful Investing in 2012 is Clear as a Pure Toned Bell.
That One Key Reveals itself to us upon considering just a very few facts.
Via its promise to keep interest ra...
Will Gold Prices Continue to Fall or Rally?
After gold prices regained considerable ground and broke the $1800 barrier they have now slumped back to below $1700 following heightened Euro zone concern, a disappointing Spanish bond auction and record breaking yields in Italy, Spain and Belgium.
T...
Risks of Money Market Accounts
In order to properly evaluate the risk of investing your cash in a money market account, you have to be able to compare that risk to the risk of other types of investments. Part of that risk is also examining the rate of return each investment offers.
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Preparing for More Big Ones
“The debt markets have been warned…
‘The incremental parts of our foreign reserve holdings should be invested in physical assets… we will liquidate (U.S. Treasuries)…when…’
To my knowledge, this is the first time that a top adviser to China's centra...
Prosperity and Protection in this Era of Concatenating Crises
"Let's face it; many of the world"s 'developed' nations are insolvent ...Either (they) will default or they will try and inflate their currencies into oblivion. Politicians can lie all they want, but the truth is that the debt obligations of these Europea...
The Biggest Bubble of Them All—Right Before Our Eyes
There’s an organization that’s been around for about 235 years. It’s more like a business today, taking in money and paying its bills.
After World War II, this business really got into high gear. It started exporting its goods all over the world. It ac...
Putting the Japan to U.S. Economic Comparison to Rest
One of the most common questions I hear these days: “Is the U.S. headed in the same direction of the Japan economy of 1990s?” The big fear is that we are headed to 10 years of deflation, as Japan experienced in its “lost decade.”
Yes, there many simila...
Find State Unclaimed Money Fast and Easy
The problem of state unclaimed money is one of the biggest threats that the treasuries all over the country are facing as the pile is increasing at an alarming rate. The state governments along with the federal agencies who have the responsibility to disb...
US Equities: Conditions Are Not That Bad
Reading through the press of popular opinion this weekend one cannot help but feel that world stock markets are at a tipping point…….and that they are about to fall into the abyss! However, if we take an objective look beneath the scenes it would appear t...
Special Stock Market Report
My commentary today is dedicated solely to the stock market. Many of my readers are obviously invested in stocks and are concerned over last week’s volatility.
Let’s start with the general consensus…
Whatever I read this weekend, the message was bas...
Bond Investing
Bond investing basics are simple. When you buy a bond, the bond issuer - either a government or corporation - pays you an agreed-upon rate of interest known as the coupon rate. In addition, you get your original investment back when the bond reaches a mat...
Why Private Banking May Be Just What You Need
Today, the world of investing has changed considerably after the recent mortgage financial crises. The smart investors now realizes that nothing is as safe as they once assumed it was, and they require more help than ever to fully protect their assets. Be...