In recent weeks, I’ve discussed America’s challenges ahead. It’s not a dollar crisis that awaits; rather, we face a duration bond crisis....
Dear Fellow Expat, The race against the clock to beat Hurricane Idalia was beyond anticlimactic. My flight change paid off as the 7 p.m. flight was...
postcards from the florida republic: An independent and profitable state of mind. I have returned from Boca Raton. The typical drive from Boca to...
The U.S. Federal Reserve will adjourn its two-day Fed meeting today (Wednesday) as the Fed mulls over rate hikes.
What's spooked markets...
The tide is turning for crude oil prices. Following some nice recent gains and despite a dip on Tuesday, the market currently remains at just...
A few weeks ago, the man formerly known as the Bond King, Bill Gross, tweeted that shorting German bunds would be the trade of...
Central bankers disguise themselves as friendly shepherds. But really it's more of a "wolf guarding the henhouse" situation... You ...
Last week, the European Central Bank's turn finally came to announce large scale quantitative easing.
As the continent...
ECB QE and EU LTRO for Dummies: As soon as you read this explanation, comprehensible to even the dumbest of the dumb, you'll be set to trade ...
While this week's announcement of a massive new QE program by the European Central Bank (ECB) was the worst kept secret in the...
Quantitative easing doesn't work.
And that can be a tough pill to swallow. Especially for the world's central bankers who are only more...
There is a lot of lip service being paid to the upcoming stock market crash that we're supposed to expect once the Federal Reserve...
Despite billions in bond-buying "quantitative easing" and near-zero interest rates courtesy of recent Fed policy, Americans stashed $1.8...
In my last column, I explained why you should always keep the bond market in mind, because stocks and bonds are inextricably...
Janet Yellen made her debut before Congress Tuesday as the new head of...
I didn't think it would happen, but Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke up and did "it" a few minutes ago.
He announced the
Janet Yellen's debut performance yesterday before the Senate Committee...
Be careful out there.
The stock market rally that started in March 2009... The one that's taken us out of the Great Recession and to...
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke announced in a press conference this afternoon that the U.S. Federal Reserve will continue quantitative easing,...
Hints from the U.S. Federal Reserve this week that the quantitative easing