Covid-19 recovery on a global scale and even within largely-immunized nations may not come as fast as we had hoped. Thus our concern has to do with Covid persistence and your investments.
Read More...When you invest in the American stock market, you are looking to make a profit, build up savings for retirement, avoid loss, and grow your wealth. Whether you are investing in individual stocks or an ETF that tracks the market, two values are important. What can you buy a stock for today and what will it be worth at a future date. Since the current stock or ETF price is readily available, what you need are predictors of stock performance going into the medium to distant future.
Read More...When you read this title you may think that we are going to revisit how the USA plans to go about decoupling of investment in China. While that is still a reality, there are more political dangers of investment in China and they come from the Chinese government run by Mr. Xi and the Chinese Communist Party.
Read More...While Wall Street ponders the questions related to how fake stocks on blockchains would work, others in the blockchain world are creating synthetic copies of real world stocks like Apple and Tesla according to Bloomberg. This is the world of centralized finance, AKA DeFi. The “stocks” in question track the value of the real thing much like an ETF would.
Read More...Meanwhile, inflation has become a concern as well as increased capital gains taxes. Something that needs to be taken into consideration as well is the lasting economic effects of the pandemic. This does not have to do with recovery of the lower arm of the “K”of the k-shaped recovery but rather structural changes in cities, change in how we work, and how the workforce may have changed.
Read More...Now that vaccinations have driven down Covid-19 case rates, hospitalizations, and deaths there is hope for a return to normal life. With this in mind we are looking at your investments and the K-shaped recovery.
Read More...How secure is bitcoin when the FBI can track transactions to recover ill-gotten gains? Who can track yours?
Read More...As of May, the annualized rate of inflation hit 5%. We believe that it is time to start inflation proofing your investments before the ten year Treasury goes to two percent, the Fed starts tapering its stimulus measures, and stocks sell off by fifteen percent or more.
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