It’s safe to say that 2022 was not the best year that gold has ever had While the yellow metal made some great gains early in the year, continued selling throughout the year drove the price down at...
The coming of the new year has traditionally been a time for people to make resolutions about how they’ll improve their way of living in the year ahead It’s become famous in some circles to joke...
In their last Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting of 2022, Federal Reserve officials voted to increase their target federal funds rate by 50 basis points, to 425-45% The move was expected,...
To say that this year has been one of ups and downs, twists and turns, elation and disappointment is perhaps an understatement And perhaps nowhere has that been more keenly felt than in markets...
The concept of the digital dollar is something that seems to have gone from discussion to potential implementation quicker than anyone thought possible While the idea of a digital dollar, a central...
This week’s inflation data brought a little bit of welcome news, namely that the overall inflation rate has fallen once again, this time to 71% year-to-year To markets, this is a sign that the...
There seems to be a growing chorus of economists making the claim that the Federal Reserve’s policy of quantitative tightening (QT) is a mistake And regardless of their reasoning or their political...
With the likelihood of recession seemingly growing every day, more and more Americans are looking at ways to protect themselves against the possibility of losing money The memories of 2008 are still...
While 2022 may have been a disappointing year at points for some investors, rumors of gold’s demise have been greatly exaggerated The yellow metal is climbing in price again, and has just about...
As much as the Federal Reserve doesn’t like inflation, there’s one thing it seems to like even less: you making more money Say what Hard as it may be to believe, Federal Reserve officials think...
As we march toward the end of the year, there are more and more mounting signs that recession is drawing closer From plunging home sales to falling job openings to slower money supply growth, more...
In the early days of 2008 we were told that the weakness in the housing market was confined to housing and wouldn’t spill over into the broader economy Of course, many of the people pushing that...
This article was originally published in 2021 and was updated for 2022 Thanksgiving is here once again, and for many families it will finally mean a return to normalcy after the events of the past...