Tag: Dow Jones Industrial Average

Total 40 Posts

No Matter What the Fed Does, We All Lose

We were waiting for the big Fed announcement on a rate hike. But what happened? No trumpets. No bells. No heralds. None came.

The Fed Has the Shakes

Central banks have no economic magic. No financial panaceas. No money miracles. They can’t really make an economy run better.

Good News About the Coming Crash

The last leaves are falling from the trees. And the last days of December are counting down, like the quiet moments before an execution.

Dow 10,000

Trump will do whatever he can to keep prices rising on Wall Street — by talking up the economy with his usual mixture of real bravura and counterfeit facts.

The Best Stock Investors: Dead People

Stocks are greatly overrated. You could have bought the whole Dow in 1928 for 10 ounces of gold. Then use those same 10 ounces to buy the Dow again in 2013.

Investors Are Going to Get Scalped

The US dollar is fake money. And the Fed lends it out at fake rates. This is why corporate, consumer, and government debt is so high.

This Happens, Buy Stocks

The combined value of the FAANG stocks — Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google — is down by about $1 trillion from its peak. Why?

FAANG: The New ‘Nifty Fifty’

Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google — these are hot stocks that everyone’s talking about. But look past the hype and you’ll see trouble on the horizon.

What Americans Really Need Right Now

Americans generally believe that the economy under Trump is galloping along at a fantastic pace. Sadly, that’s not the truth.

A Memento Mori for the Bull Market

We take a trip through France, and we consider what history has to teach us about the fallacy of relying on the bull market to make you rich.

We Received a Surprising Phone Call…

Donald Trump came into the White House promising to drain the swamp. Instead what we’re seeing is the deficit ballooning to $1.3 trillion next year.

America’s Debt: A Recipe for Disaster

The stock market is more volatile than it’s ever been. Why? Well, it all comes down to America’s ferocious appetite for debt.

How a Chinese Billionaire Was Erased

Trump is at war with the US Federal Reserve over the issue of interest rates. How high is too high? And how low is too low? Here’s the inconvenient truth.

Why the Information Revolution Failed

We live in the age of mobile devices and streaming content. We should be wiser and better informed. So why do we still lack common sense about the economy?

Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust Share Price Declines 2.70%

The share price for Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust PLC [NZX:TEM] has fallen by over 2% today. Why has this happened?