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Low Volatility – Low Volatility Investing and Market Correction/Collapse Ensuing
Low Volatility investing was up until about a week or so ago the normal in the trading world for the market. Why trading the VIX (Volatility Index) would have sound ludicrous 5-7 years ago is now considered and effective and simple trading strategy. After all, if you know the Plunge Protection Team will stop even the slightest correction who could blame you. But low volatility is not something one would equate to the stock market. What could happen when everybody is on one side of the trade? Well Gordon T Long does an excellent job showing you what can happen. […]
2018 Will Finally Bring The Pension Crisis to Light-Pension Crisis Unfold 2018
In this video I go over an article that explains how in 2018 the magnitude of the Pension Crisis will finally come to light. This will be done by one item. Starting in 2018 the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GAAP) for state and local governments will force individuals to record health care liabilities on their balance sheets. Pew Charitable Trusts estimates the national short fall will add up to 645 billion. This is already top of the estimated 1.1 trillion in unfunded pension liabilities they already had. No matter how you cut it 2018 will finally bring the Pension crisis […]
Retirement Issues and Baby Boomers
In this video I talk about the most important issues that will face us this year and for the years to come retirement issues. The go to’s for retirement such as Social Security, Pensions, 40lk are underfunded and the Baby Boomers are facing serious issues. The retirement issues are brewing and its not being talked about enough. The problem is epic as these are our family members, relatives and they are the ones most people lean on for financial health. If they are being squeezed it affects each generation after them. Start talking to your parents and older family members […]
Primary Wealth- Is Gold and Silver still relevant?
Tertiary Wealth!! Not a common phrase but one that stands at the forefront when you think about wealth. What is tertiary wealth you ask? Well it’s the paper currency we know as money, the stocks we hold in our 401k, the bonds, the IRA’s, the bitcoin and any other common form we so commonly associate with someone being wealthy. But this is really not accurate and for the most part it really does not matter until there is a economic crash, a natural disaster, or depletion of a known resource. And if you find yourself facing one of the situations […]
Financialization Of The Economy
We live in a world of Financialization. The term alone is complex, and the problems it has caused our economy is even more troubling. Now I cannot take credit for this term, as I only heard of the term by watching the fantastic work of Gordon T Long and his friend Charles Hugh Smith. They cover this in a 4 part video dialogue. I have enclosed the 4th in this video series because I believe it is the most poignant. Ever since we have gotten off the gold standard in 1971, we have been living and functioning on ever amounts […]