Historically, gold has been held by private investors who see gold as a good way to protect wealth during inflationary periods or when there is substantial economic or political uncertainty as well as ...

As if investors didn't have enough to worry about, they can now add an open breach between President Donald Trump and the chair of the Federal Reserve during an economic crisis and a financial ...

Sweden's partial privatization of its social insurance system - 2.5% of wages going to stocks - seems a good model for the U.S. There is no federal program that is more important to the financial ...

Above all, prioritize your relationship and live calmly by compartmentalizing the bad economic news from daily life. Panic save, don't panic sell. Make financial decisions when emotions are low so ...

The first would be that foreign governments from Brussels to Beijing trim their sails to Trump's maelstrom, announcing the kind of "big, beautiful" trade concessions that would allow the president to ...

The U.S. treats cost and quality in healthcare delivery as separate entities, creating a stalemate in planning for the future of Medicaid and Medicare. Left unchanged, these programs will become ...

Economists and consumers are, naturally perhaps, upping their own predictions of whether there will be a recession on the back of Trump's trade war. Polymarket, the U.S.-based crypto-based prediction ...

Today's financial-market excesses are different. There is a grotesqueness and a predatory element to them. What has strayed too far aren't underwriting standards, as we saw in the run-up to the 2008 ...

The last time that HSNSI was as low as it is now was in late October 2023, as shown in the chart below. The S&P 500 over the next month gained 10%, and 19.1% over the next three months.

"I believe the biggest threat across the board to the U.S. dollar generally is a digital currency backed by gold," Ardiono said. He noted that the presence of Chinese infrastructure projects across ...

In 2024, for example, Hirsch's approach went to cash on April 3 - almost four weeks before the end of month, when the mechanical SMGA strategy called for getting out of stocks. And last fall, Hirsch ...