After a spate of bad news in the last week of the quarter, the volatile financial markets ended with stock and bond indexes making new lows for the year. Stocks have recorded one of their worst starts to the year in history with the Dow Jones Industrial, the S&P 500,…
It was just several short months ago that the primary concern of many investors was “Fear Of Missing Out” (FOMO) on what appeared to be the easy gains to be made from a broad array of continually rising asset prices. Speculation seemed easy as “meme” stocks, “SPACs,” cryptocurrencies, NFTs (non-fungible…
Fortune magazine recently published an article with a title suggesting that investors should congratulate themselves if their portfolio was down 5% for the first quarter of 2022. “If so, …you’re an investing genius,” it ruefully claims. For stocks, it was the worst quarter since the start of the pandemic 2…
After the tsunami of financial stimulus that flooded into the economy and the financial markets over the past two years, inflation has come roaring back. This is no surprise to most observers; even the members of the Federal Reserve Board appear to have abandoned their use of the word “transitory”…