Investments
Are Your Finances Safe? Take The Financial Retirement Threat Assessment Survey
As we get closer to retirement, the more we need to worry about our finances and the security of our retirement savings. 7 questions designed to show you what threats exist and what you can do to minimize future loss. If you don’t know the threats to your savings, you can’t take action and you can’t…
Read MoreHere’s Where the Next Crisis Starts – You Think The Stock Market Is Safe!? You Better Think Again!
The case for a pending financial collapse is well grounded. Financial crises occur on a regular basis including 1987, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2007-08. That averages out to about once every five years for the past thirty years. There has not been a financial crisis for ten years so the world is overdue. It’s also the…
Read MoreMore than half of S&P 500 stocks are now in a bear market
Even after the recent pain in the stock market, the S&P 500 Index is down only 3% in 2018 (excluding dividends). That’s not so bad when you consider the benchmark index rose 19% in 2017. Still, more than half of the stocks in the index are in bear-market territory, showing how broad the decline has been. A…
Read More3 Ticking Time Bombs Threaten The Savings Of Baby Boomers
I’m sure you remember the mortgage meltdown of 2008 and the crazy aftermath. More than $1 trillion of your taxes went to bailout these so-called “Too-Big-To-Fail” banks. Because of that whole banking disaster, in 2010 President Barack Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Act, also known as the “Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.”…
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