This past week the news emerged from the Fed’s Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit that U.S. total household debt has set another staggering record. The debt level hit $14.15 trillion after rising another $193 billion (1.4 percent higher)…
The Coronavirus has caused a scare around the world as an unfolding global health pandemic, but not as much attention has been paid to the effects it is having on the Chinese and now global economies. Uncertainty surrounding the resumption…
This past week the news emerged that despite what has been called the greatest economy in history a huge percentage of Americans are actually living from one paycheck to the next. Respected business news site MarketWatch cited a few surveys…
This past week saw the longstanding shadow war in the Middle East between the U.S. and Iran become an escalating conflict. After attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq, America responded by killing the most powerful military figure in Iran,…
In the past few weeks, the extent of the unfolding banking crises in both Italy and China has become more apparent. In mid-December, the Italian government found itself forced to save the struggling southern lender Banca Popolare di Bari. The…
This past week saw mixed data released on the state of the U.S. economy. The statistics on spending and personal income were positive enough to lead stocks higher. While talking heads were crowing about the “strong economy,” they were overlooking…
Today you saw the U.S. Federal Reserve cut interest rates by another quarter percentage point. Wall Street was loudly demanding this in order to keep stock valuations at otherwise currently unsustainable levels. It was the third interest rate cut in…
Since the year began you have watched oil prices really soar. This has been supported by a number of factors, including OPEC cutting supplies, additional fighting in Libya, and American sanctions against both OPEC nations Iran and Venezuela. The two…
There are three terms that are unfortunately often used interchangeably in the investing world. These are investment, speculation, and wealth preservation. While they have some basic elements in common, they are vastly different concepts in general and should not be…
Retirees are not well-known for being major risk takers. In fact, quite the opposite is true with their age bracket. This is why it should not come as a huge surprise that they look at Bitcoin and the other major…
Since the United States’ Internal Revenue Service at last began offering its citizens the right to store their Gold IRA physical precious metals assets internationally, it seems like every nation has jumped head first into the offshore precious metals storage…
When you set out to buy gold bullion, there are a number of considerations you need to take into account. It is more than just figuring out who to purchase the gold from, though that is a logical starting point.…
It is ironic that modern governments (who hardly even believe in gold as money) have a history of making war on gold when times get tough. The facts bear out the cases of five different nations making it their business…
As you can see in the picture above, Bitcoin is often represented by a gold colored token. The world’s second largest cryptocurrency (by market cap) Ethereum commonly has a silver token portrayal. It is no accident that the two leading…
What Exactly is Bitcoin? Bitcoin (or BTC) refers to the now world-famous digital currency which was created in 2009. Digital currencies are commonly referred to as “cryptocurrencies.” Bitcoin was the first-ever cryptocurrency. It was developed by Satoshi Nakamoto, an anonymous…
Gold, is considered by many, to be a hard asset that can be used as a long-term investment vehicle and will help you avoid the rapid devaluation of your portfolio during times of market turbulence. Gold is looked at by…
Thanks to the significantly higher gold prices over the last decade, gold bars in almost any size have become so valuable now that counterfeiters find them a profitable challenge and a potentially big score. If you are sitting on a…
Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) Funds attempt to match the progress of the underlying stock market indices for each fund. It should not come as a great surprise to investors that if the stock markets are down in general, these funds…
Despite the fact that plenty of investment banks had lined up against gold’s prospects over the past months, gold managed to post its best quarter in thirty years for the first three months of 2016. Gold prices roared 16% higher…
Gold has a following that never gives up nor surrenders. This has something to do with the feelings of safety and security that it has always created for those who owned it historically, and that it still creates for investors…
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