With U.S. Treasury bond yields zooming higher, the interest in buying Treasury bonds has followed suit. Let me show you how to buy Treasury bonds online. I’ll then share some buying strategies to help maximize returns and liquidity. Treasury bonds are risk-free investments if you hold them until maturity. You don’t have to pay state […]
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With higher interest rates for longer and an inverted yield curve, another global financial crisis might be brewing. The Board Of Governors are all very rich, so they’ll be OK. However, a world of hurt could be coming for the middle class who will lose their jobs in droves. Thankfully, balance sheets are stronger this
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One of the main reasons why I wrote my WSJ bestseller, Buy This, Not That was to help readers feel less regret by making wiser choices. Regret is one of the worst feelings, especially if it is a type of regret that could have been prevented through knowledge. The easiest way to stop saying, “If
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Market timing is the strategy of making buying or selling decisions of financial assets by attempting to predict future market price movements. By timing the market, the hope is to make an eventual profitable decision. Market timing gets a bad rap partially because it’s difficult to do consistently to profit. However, I mostly believe the
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You might be wondering why rich central bankers remain unrelenting in their desire to raise interest rates. After all, there are plenty of signs individual components of inflation are rolling over. Given each interest rate hike takes at least six months to have an affect on slowing the economy, the Federal Reserve could easily over
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With heightened stock market volatility, more investors are looking for ways to hedge their portfolios or find some way to outperform the broader indices. Therefore, I thought it would be a good idea to interview Ananda Aisola, the co-founder of Composer, a new investment platform. For 13 years I worked in the equities department at
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One of my goals after entering the decumulation phase is to give more to charity. And one of the best ways to give to charity is through a donor-advised fund. All my wealthy friends have set up donor-advised funds, so it was about time I do the same. The following guest post about donor-advised funds
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Although about 30% of my public equity portfolio is invested in individual stocks, I don’t recommend the average non-obsessed person invest more than 10% of their portfolio in individual stocks. The main reason why is because it is hard to outperform the various indices over the long term. Although there are no fees for owning
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From the guy who told you to buy heartland real estate in 2016, I’ve got another long-term investment idea I think you should consider. Investing in rare books and various types of memorabilia with autographs. Not only can investing in collectibles be lucrative, but it’s also a ton of fun as well. For example, I
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The latest U.S. inflation figure came in hot at 9.1%. Below is the official June inflation data by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Overall, food prices were up 10.4% YoY with “Food at home” (groceries) up 12.2% YoY. Although elevated inflation is eroding our purchasing power, we don’t have to just sit there and
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