Ready for the Rate Hike?
It looks like the long Fed experiment with near-zero interest rates will end next month. Is that good or bad news for your financial outlook?
29Aug
29Jul
Fed Wimps Out on Another Rate Hike Opportunity
As we fight to extricate ourselves from the quicksand of our economy, the Fed once again fails to come to our aid.
07Jun
Global Economy Has Gold Investors Salivating
There are certain immutable truths. Everything is cyclical; what goes down must come up. The Fed has its finger on the pulse of our economy... Oh, who are we kidding?
03Jun
Time for a Rate Hike? Or Just the Fed’s Historic Game of Smoke and Mirrors?
What's the prime mission of the Fed? If you guessed "to maintain a sane and prudent national financial policy" scarily enough, you'd be wrong.
20May
Rate Hike Warning Causes Markets to Freak Out and Tank
If you thought the stock market had accepted and even "priced in" an inevitable rate hike, Thursday's meltdown was an ugly wake-up call.
28Apr
Gold Jumps After Fed Blinks, Again, on Rate Hike
Once again the Fed's interest rate saga ended with a whimper. But is it worth asking what they see on the horizon that's staying their hand?