Stocks Slide Globally with No Bottom in Sight
Your riskiest investments just got riskier, with forces from oil to emerging markets to negative interest rates arrayed en masse against the stability of the stocks in your portfolio.
10Feb
09Feb
Who Cares What’s in Your Wallet?
Many experts believe consumer spending is the key gauge of a healthy economy. By that measure, our economy could be the healthiest patient on the critical list.
08Feb
Will Out-of-Control Debt Annihilate the Global Economy?
From Europe to Asia to Washington to our own front doors, living in continuous debt has become a way of life. But is the party ending?
05Feb
Gold Now Outperforming Most Other Assets
Like the fabled tortoise, gold endured scorn, even exaggerated reports of its death, while the cocky hares of the stock market laughed. But who's getting the last laugh?
04Feb
Size Matters – “Too Big to Fail” Banks Are Bigger Than Ever
As banks grow bigger who wins? They rake in mega-millions and take risks without consequences, meanwhile your savings are targeted by thieves both without and within.
03Feb
The Lid on the Silver Price is About to Pop
When is eighty-four cents a big deal? When it lays bare the machinations that govern – perhaps even artificially suppress – prices in a multi-billion dollar industry.
02Feb
Underfunded Retirement: A Lonely Road with no Destination
Once an esteemed and educated professional, at age seventy-nine she never imagined she'd be forced to wander the country in search of work, and choose between eating or paying her bills.
01Feb
Germany Wants its Gold Back!
For years hundreds of tonnes of German gold was stored securely in Paris and under the streets of New York. But as financial crisis looms in the EU, the reserves have come home.
28Jan
Can You Still Bank on Your Own Future?
The phrase "You can bank on it" was once an indicator of how solid and reliable we all knew our local lenders to be. But these days what you can really bank on is daily news stories that shake our faith in these once-respected institutions.
27Jan
Should You Hire a Psychic to Manage Your Portfolio?
Do self-proclaimed experts really have secret insights into the workings of the market? Or is their guess really as good as yours?