Many people worry about the rising home prices of today causing a bubble that is ready to burst. While there may indeed be trouble brewing, real concerns are still quite far off. There are many that are describing the current condition with the housing market a bubble, and perhaps an even bigger bubble than we […]
Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and Pinterest are all scheduled to release their first stock to the public this year. As exciting as this might seem, we still need to exercise enough caution. Stocks that are either in the technology sector or related to technology comprise some of the hottest stocks out there these days. The technology […]
You can buy and sell a lot of things online these days, pretty much anything, but you can’t sell your house online, right? Zillow has allowed people to do this right now if they wish. When a company releases their quarterly earnings results, this often serves as a pivot point where we can get a […]
Home ownership is considered to be a significant part of the American dream, but more and more of us are being forced to give it up, even those who make a lot of money. Traditionally, lower income people have always represented the biggest percentage of renters, for a number of good reasons. While owning your […]
Even iconic investors make mistakes. Warren Buffett sure made one when he bought a quarter of Kraft Heinz. The damage is up to $14 billion and this may be far from over. Warren Buffett is without a doubt one of the most legendary investors of all time. Few investors can claim to be such a […]
Kraft Heinz had already seen the value of their shares drop by half over the past two years. Thursday’s earnings call poured gasoline on this fire, and things are really ablaze now. Kraft and Heinz used to be two separate American food companies that did battle with one another for almost 100 years. In 2012, […]
With the Fed still forecasting at least one rate hike in 2019, if not two, and no one really talking much about a rate cut, this does not suggest that things may get unmanageable. One of the questions that people are asking, in the midst of the economic slowdown that we’re seeing, is whether the […]
Many are speculating on the potential effects of a successful trade deal between the U.S. and China, and since this is still weighing us down, there is still upside left with this. There hasn’t been any real doubt that the recent trade tensions between the United States and China have weighed pretty heavily on stock […]
We will be seeing a huge amount of corporate debt maturing soon, with $3.3 trillion of it coming due over the next 5 years. How much should we worry about all of this? Companies obtain financing for their businesses through one of two ways, they can either attract investment through issuing shares or they may […]
It turns out that the Fed being patient with interest rates at this point in time doesn’t mean that all members feel this way. This really shouldn’t matter to us much though. The minutes of the January meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee was released on Wednesday, and it has provided us with a […]