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Brazil Crashes Moments After All the Experts Say "Buy"
Emerging markets are generally not appropriate investments for most. Certain markets may work for trades here and there, but the category as an investment class is wholly inappropriate for non-institutional investors who want to maintain... Read →
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Stock Market Response to Trump Crisis
There is an excellent letter to the Editor in the New York Times by a citizen decrying the unending and ever more dangerous behavior of Donald Trump, and especially his reckless disregard for the country’s security and stability. In... Read →
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Hello And Goodbye Rod Rosenstein
Rod Rosenstein, the new Deputy Attorney General, made an unbelievably stupid decision to be Trump’s pawn in the firing of FBI director, James Comey. Widely purported to be very bright, measured and experienced, he showed none of that... Read →
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Where Have all the Senators Gone?
The country is at the brink. There is such turmoil now that it is hard to understand how some of those in power in the Congress and, even in the White House, are not stepping forward, putting aside party allegiances, and standing on the... Read →
WSJ Article Mistakenly Celebrates Bank of America's Low Interest Rate
There was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, entitled "Bank of America Pays Peanuts for Deposits but the Money Keeps Flowing In". The article highlights, actually celebrates, the fact that Bank of... Read →
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New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art - A Leader No More?
Museums around the country, indeed, in many other parts of the world, charge visitors to see their collections. Many depend totally or importantly on entry ticket revenue to keep their doors open. Some museums, especially in America,... Read →
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Macron's Victory is a Win for the 21st Century
Democracy failed in America last November. Great Britain is teetering. France was at the brink. Finally, a win for the people who are not stupid and angry – the people who do not want to destroy civilization as we know it, as we... Read →
JFK at 100
Jack Kennedy was born 100 years ago this month. He was assassinated some 56 years ago. And, America has never again been as optimistic, enthusiastic and determined. He was smart and charismatic. He was a natural leader. And, most of... Read →
Retired And in the Market
I am retired, living off my savings, and I am very scared. I can’t afford to stay out of the market, but it feels like a fool’s journey. If the market drops, as it must and will, I will be in real trouble. I am not alone. ... Read →
Exhausted from Low Savings Account Rates? Consider 5-Year CDs
It has been 9 years already of making virtually nothing from savings account rates. Even with the best rates recently moving up to the 1.05% – 1.25% range as the Federal Reserve has raised the Fed funds rate, cash has been a... Read →
Opening Your First Online Savings Account: 10 Factors to Consider
I continue to be surprised by the number of people – well educated people – that I come across in my daily routine who tell me that they have not yet opened their first online savings account. Nobody disputes the fact that a... Read →
The Totalitarian Reign of the Airlines
Like many other things in the United States these days, the familiar has become less predictable and the veneer of civility far less true. Airlines have become, clearly, a flashing red light about a crumbling civil society and a rising... Read →
Easing Back Into CDs
My article late in 2016 on BestCashCow about avoiding CDs longer than 1 year as well as CD laddering strategies got a fair amount of feedback and stirred more than a little controversy. After all, BestCashCow is a website largely about CD... Read →
Dow 21,000, S&P 2400 and NASDAQ 6000: Seems Unsustainable
The stock market is at all time highs. It has run to extraordinary levels. Stock valuations, in the opinion of this author, are absolutely unsustainable. The S&P now trades over 18x 2018 consensus estimates. 18x future earnings... Read →
