Don’t Sacrifice Your Retirement for Your Children
Those of us who are parents want to do everything we can to give our children the best start to life possible. From the time they’re infants, through high school and college, and into early adulthood, parents always want to be there to support their children. But an increasing number of Americans are going too far, destroying their ability...
Here Are the Trends Driving the Gold Price
Gold’s price, like the price of any other asset, is driven by issues of supply and demand. Increases in supply lead to price drops, while increases in demand lead to price increases. With the mining sector facing increasing difficulty in discovering new gold deposits, and with economic headwinds encouraging more and more investors to get into gold as a...
Worried About Income Inequality? Blame the Fed
More and more people today understand that income inequality in the United States is growing. The top 1% keep getting richer and richer while the other 99% largely stagnate. The percentage of wealth owned by the richest grows larger and larger while the middle and lower classes are increasingly changing from owners to renters, unable to cope with the...
Forbes: Gold Bull Market to Last Until At Least 2030
Investors who have been in gold markets for a while understand that the gold price is often quite cyclical. Like other markets, it can experience price rises and falls even while its overall trend is upward. Now an investing expert who called gold’s bear market has come out proclaiming that gold’s bull market has at least another decade to...
China Gearing Up for All-Out Trade War With United States
If President Trump thought that enacting tariffs on all imports of Chinese goods would bring China back to the negotiating table, he seriously and severely miscalculated. Not only did China retaliate by increasing tariffs on $60 billion worth of imports from the United States, but it also is digging in its heels and refusing to buckle. To hear Chinese...
Winning the Lottery Isn’t a Viable Retirement Plan
The past year has seen some really large and nearly record-breaking sums of money won in lotteries. From the $1.5 billion won in Mega Millions in October 2018 to the $768 million won in Powerball in March 2019, many Americans have gotten excited thinking about the things they could do with all that money. Yet despite all that wishful thinking,...
Gold Price Rises on Safe Haven Trading: How Much Further Will It Go?
With President Trump’s revelation that he intends to place tariffs on all imports of Chinese goods, markets went haywire earlier this week. While tariffs on existing imports are rising to 25%, all Chinese imports will soon be subject to punitive tariffs. That will raise the cost of living not just for American consumers but for American businesses as well....