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An excellent question; and one that came on the heels of yesterday’s answers to questions post. Should I buy gold? First, gold is a barometer of fear. It is not a safe harbor against inflation. It rises with great intensity when people are worried. It falls with equal intensity when people feel safe. Recently, it falls on the days the …Read the Full Article

The days are interesting, boy oh boy, they’re interesting. The market is up, then the market is down, then it’s up, and then down lower. Then…well you have the idea. Our strategy when it comes to investment turbulence is pretty simple: 1. We want your investment portfolio prepared in advance for whatever happens. We will never be absolutely correct about …Read the Full Article

A whole lot has been said about this practice but no one has made clear what the problem is in comprehensible terms and how it affects your plan for retirement; so here goes.   The Federal Reserve Bank can inject as much or as little money into the “system” as it would like and can do so with very little …Read the Full Article

Four news items have appeared in the last 24 hours which clearly explain the argument repudiating increasing income taxes on the “wealthy”. Wealthy, a somewhat nebulous term, basically amounts these days to anyone who has a serious chance of accomplishing a comfortable plan for retirement. From two people who should know better but apparently don’t, Warren Buffett and Scott Burns, …Read the Full Article

These are the two main articles on Yahoo Finance today after the market has lost almost 20% from the April 2011 highs:  “4 Rules for the Volatile market”, and “With such market volatility should you move into cash?”   I’m sure these links receive quite a lot of attention for the search engine/portals. After all, I clicked on the first …Read the Full Article

If the last twelve months have shown us anything, it’s that there is a tremendous disconnect between what most American think and what politicians do, what mainstream media reports and what is true, and between government and union interests and what prompts job creators to build businesses and create jobs.These things have damaged our country, our economy, and our children’s …Read the Full Article

You may have been expecting the markets to respond favorably to the news the debt ceiling deal has been worked out. Obviously this is not the case. Let me explain what is happening, how we have prepared for this situation, and how this is designed to avoid altering your plan for retirement.   1. Aside from the debt ceiling issue …Read the Full Article