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November 9, 2019 Mutual Funds 2 Comments

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August 23, 2019 Personal 14 Comments

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June 15, 2019 Mutual Funds 4 Comments

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April 22, 2019 Earnings 3 Comments

What Should Investors Expect When Starbucks Reports Earnings?

What Should Investors Expect When Starbucks Reports Earnings? After hitting all-time highs in mid-2017, Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) faced a rough patch. Over the course of the next year, the coffee purveyor lost a quarter of its value. What caused the slide? Falling … Continue reading at fool.com Dow Futures Drop 52 Points as the Market Awaits […]

March 23, 2019 Mutual Funds 15 Comments

Fund investors flee stocks for bonds even as equities have best quarter in years

Fund investors flee stocks for bonds even as equities have best quarter in years Investors around the globe withdrew money from equity funds in the week ended March 20, continuing a trend that has colored stock markets since the start of the year, even as major benchmarks have … Continue reading at marketwatch.com Australia’s Top […]

March 17, 2019 Mutual Funds No Comments

Why investors should consider buying stock in the fund company, not the fund

Why investors should consider buying stock in the fund company, not the fund Don’t miss these top money and investing features: From buying the unloved, value-focused stocks of mutual-fund companies to the best way to approach the shares of cannabis-industry companies, this … Continue reading at marketwatch.com Wall Street Weekahead: U.S. Funds Focus on Media […]

February 26, 2019 Dividends 10 Comments

Why Dividend Investors Have Warren Buffett All Wrong

Why Dividend Investors Have Warren Buffett All Wrong Berkshire Hathaway gets a huge amount of dividend income from its investment holdings. In 2018, the company received $ 3.8 billion in dividends, and Buffett said the amount of dividends Berkshire gets … Continue reading at fool.com How To Calculate Dividend Payout Dividends may be issued as […]

February 24, 2019 Mutual Funds 12 Comments

Investors facing a tax bill for stock mutual funds that fell in 2018

Investors facing a tax bill for stock mutual funds that fell in 2018 NEW YORK — As if the worst year for stocks in nearly a decade weren’t bad enough, many investors now have to pay a tax bill on top of it. The headache for investors is a result of how mutual funds are […]

According to Lubaszka, the U.S. dollar has lost more than 80% of its original value since the early 70's when we went to a floating currency, a situation not helped very much by the debut of the Euro in the late 1990s. Unlike American dollars, a portion of the Euro is gold-backed, a stability feature that has helped it outperform the dollar over the long haul. It is for this reason that many foreign investors have been taking money out of U.S. dollars and putting it into gold and oil instead, one explanation for why the price of both has continued to rise in recent months.

"Gold prices are climbing right now because the Federal Reserve is printing dollars in flood proportions to keep the real estate market afloat," adds Richard Russell, editor Dow Theory Letters, a stock market trends and securities report published since 1946. "This is creating inflation, which erodes purchasing power. All the world's central banks are inflating right now, reducing confidence in paper globally and encouraging gold-buying. India and China are spurring gold prices as well. India is the world's largest gold-consumer, and the Chinese government is actively encouraging its citizens to buy gold."

"When gold peaked-out in the 1970s, interest rates were at an all-time high," Lubaszka says. "Right now we're waiting to feel the effects of the last 9 interest rate increases which generally take 6-9 months to begin impacting the economy. Now's the time to buy gold because when rates go up, downward pressure is exerted on real estate, stocks and bonds and commodities like gold tend to increase. The opposite occurs when rates travel from a high to a low. That's the time to reduce gold assets and increase the paper part of a portfolio."