I would suggest a different way to think about it. What's yours is yours. There is no "house money" in the market. A loss from today hurts you...
Of course, if you had purchased US Treasury bonds instead, you would be ahead right now, but we aren't keeping score.
Another view might be that it is only during election years that gun buyers are reminded of the war against the second amendment, and that it is...
Americans have traditionally borrowed only when they expected the future to be much better or when their other investments [e.g., homes] were...
This is considered "common knowledge," so I suppose it will be true since all of the traders and hedge funds will be trying to figure out what...
I think gold will go higher from here, but at some price the right thing to do is sell most of it and move on. It is only the long term holders...
I don't really believe higher interest rates will force Americans to make big sacrifices. They are already making the big sacrifice from low...
Of course, the points on one side are likely to turn out to be completely invalid. We just don't know which side yet. ;)
Never say never. No industry stays on top forever, and this applies to the finance industry. In past times it was a sleepy, low margin business...
I don't think that is the reason, but I also don't understand what is motivating the zero interest rate policy. It certainly can't last forever,...
There is no economic reason why the economy or any company could not withstand higher interest rates. Maybe there are other motives for not...
Mints around the world are becomming smarter at marketing. They realized that if they issue a series of "limited edition" bullion coins, they can...
Operation Twist doesn't really do anything for the banking sector, and it doesn't increase the money supply. The high frequency trading is just a...
I don't think that's likely in the US.
Or let interest rates rise. That would be the free market solution.
I don't see any real difference between the candidates' economic policies. That said, it isn't clear to me that high inflation is a slam-dunk...
It might turn out that way in the long run if the federal government insists on perpetual annual deficits of $1T or more.
A few obvious ones come to mind. The commercial paper market is functioning without government support. Major banking institutions have...
Ummm. No.
I'd just like to say that I'm enjoying the fatima-mrbrklyn bout. Why didn't we think of this before to get them in the ring together? This is...
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