by Daniel White | Feb 1, 2016 | Economy
February 1, 2016 “Anyone claiming America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction.” – President Barack Obama, Jan. 12, 2016. My readers can now refer to me as a fiction writer then because despite the president’s assertion, the data and several...
by Daniel White | Jan 25, 2016 | Economy
January 25, 2016 There are some eerie similarities between today and the 2000 “dot com” bear market. In the period leading up to the late 2000-02, the market was led by four large tech stocks – Microsoft, Dell, Cisco and Intel. As groups of alike stocks tend to do,...
by Daniel White | Jan 11, 2016 | Economy
January 11, 2016 The long-practiced strategy of generating retirement income from U.S. Treasury investments (i.e., bonds) is in danger of being reduced to irrelevance because of the Fed’s low rate policies. A recent study shows that retirees now need more...
by Daniel White | Jan 4, 2016 | Economy
January 4, 2016 It finally happened – the Fed raised rates. The overdue move is an official sign of economic recovery. It’s also a sign that the Fed is tightening its belt (despite commanding a multi-trillion dollar portfolio). In its pledge to...
