Robert Paulsen

Robert

Editor, MarketReview.com

Robert really stands out in the way that he is able to clarify things through the application of simple economic principles which he also makes easy to understand.

Contact Robert: robert@marketreview.com

Topics of interest: News & updates from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Retirement, Insurance, Mortgage & more.

Twitter Continues to Be User Rich and Profit Poor

Twitter

Social media company Twitter continues to grow its user base considerably. They are a huge household name. The most important ingredient is left out though, the good profit part. Twitter will be soon marking its seventh anniversary of their stock being traded publicly, and while the number seven is thought by many to be a […]

Destruction from Rioting Add to Pain in Retail Sector

Minneapolis protests after the death of George Floyd

The protests surrounding the killing of George Floyd continue with no end in sight. While the damage has been contained so far, the lack of an effective response is concerning. There is a special trust that we convey upon our peace officers, where we give them greater powers than civilians have, arming them and allowing […]

South Dakota Pension Fund Dives into S&P Index ETF

South Dakota Retirement System and Pension Fund

After a disappointing 2019, the top-ranked South Dakota Retirement System did some housekeeping in the first quarter of 2020, including buying a million shares of an index ETF. State pension funds control a lot of money, and the fact that tiny South Dakota, the 47th most populous state in the country with only 884,000 people, […]

Bank Stocks Stagger in the Face of Negative Rate Threat

Bank Stocks

It often doesn’t take much to scare financial markets, and the way that they interpreted Fed Chairman Jay Powell’s comments on the prospects of negative interest rates proves this. The very idea of a central bank lending money to banks at negative interest rates is a very recent one, and one that isn’t even that […]

Neel Kashkari Believes Job Crisis Will Get “Much Worse”

Neel Kashkari, Minneapolis Federal Reserve President

April’s job numbers came in on Friday, and 20.5 million losing their jobs during the month should concern us plenty. Neel Kashkari of the Minneapolis Fed says it will get much worse. Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari certainly qualifies as one of the Fed’s most outspoken members, and readers might remember our doing an […]

Can Treasuries Be Made More Exciting than Stocks Now?

Treasuries

Given that the economy has taken such a hammering lately, many have already feasted on the rebound in stocks. The rebound in treasury yields is more exciting if we play this right. If we are serious about achieving success with investing, we need to always be comparing the desirability of various approaches. Investors and the […]

Many Small Investors Duped by WTI Futures ETF

WTI Futures ETF

ETFs can be a nice tool for investors to participate in markets that they normally wouldn’t, like WTI oil futures. We need to look at the ingredients of these ETFs first. Your average investor doesn’t pay much attention to the futures markets, whether this be oil futures or any of the many other commodities and […]

Is the Tech SPDR Really Riskier than the S&P 500?

Tech SPDR

The S&P 500 is the most popular index fund by far among investors, because they think it’s better to be more diversified, to manage risk. Reality tells a different story though. The world of investing is riddled with so many myths that it would even be fair to categorize the whole thing as mythology. There […]