Scott Minerd of Guggenheim Partners is sounding the alarm. We’re about to open Pandora’s economic box, and the worms we see may set off another round of panic. While stock markets have stabilized from the beating that they took over pandemic fears, and we’re even seeing the outbreak situation start to stabilize as well, not […]

Among the over $2 trillion in the new Cares Act is a couple of provisions to help people with their retirement accounts during the virus panic. These changes deserve to stay. The coronavirus scare has had many people scrambling to make ends meet due to a loss of income from the widespread shutdown that the […]

The number of new unemployment claims in the U.S. blew up to 3.28 million, but we all knew that this was coming. This included the stock market which continued upward. It might not seem to make much sense that we could get the worst jobless claim report in history and see the stock market rally […]

We should not just take a standardized approach to advising people on their retirement money, because the circumstances vary so much. This does not stop us though. The way that we advise those who are saving for retirement or are in retirement is in great need of revision. There is so much work that needs […]

People are becoming more terrified each day of the health threat they believe COVID-19 is. The health risks aren’t scary at all, but the economic damage gets scarier each day. When COVID-19 became perceived as a big enough threat to lockdown Hubei Province in China, we knew that their economy would take a meaningful hit, […]

Individual investors have been challenged plenty by the current stock crisis, and this has been all the more painful for mutual fund managers, even though they may not feel it. The current correction in stocks that we’ve been under over the last three weeks have been pretty painful for everyone who remained on the long […]

With European rates being underwater for so long, and U.S. treasury yields really plummeting now, some are wondering how much longer the U.S. can stay positive. Negative yields on bonds are a new phenomenon, and are completely counter-intuitive, as it should appear to be pretty odd indeed that people would lend money at a loss. […]

Economist David Rosenberg has been seeing weakness in the economy and has been bearish on stocks for several years now. Being wrong over and over doesn’t bother him. David Rosenberg considers himself a contrarian, which in itself isn’t necessary a bad thing and can often be a good thing, depending on what side of right […]

The coronavirus scare and gold are made for each other. The soft commodities have taken a hit, but several commodities advisors see this as a good opportunity. It didn’t really take much know-how for us to recommend going long gold when the coronavirus that still grips the financial world broke out not so long ago. […]

Oil giant Exxon Mobil has increased its dividend for the last 17 years without fail. They want to increase it again this year. They don’t have the money, so they are going to borrow it. Stock dividend payments are a way that companies pay profits directly to their shareholders. When a company earns money, they […]