Commodities

Gold and Bonds

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Market dislocations occur when financial markets, operating under stressful conditions, experience large widespread asset mispricing. Welcome to this week’s edition of “World Out Of Whack” where every Wednesday Capitalist Exploits take time out of their day to applaud insanity, laugh, poke fun at and present to you absurdity in global financial markets in all it’s glorious insanity. … Read more

It’s Outcome, Not Income, That Should Be Stressed In Retirement Planning

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Retirement Planning? Most Americans are pessimistic about how well off they’ll be financially when they reach retirement. “People have a lot of worries and that’s understandable,” says Dan Carter, an Investment Advisor Representative for Safeguard Investment Advisory Group (www.safeguardinvestment.com). “Their savings may not be what they hoped for. Pensions for most people are a thing … Read more

Robo-Advisors Vs. Humans: Gauging The Outer Limits Of Automated Financial Advice

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The use of robo-advisors is on the rise among investors looking for an alternative way to get help with financial planning. In fact, a report by the consulting firm A.T. Kearney predicted that robo-advisors will be managing 5.6 percent of Americans’ investment assets by 2020, up from 0.5 percent when the report was done in … Read more

Bill Gates And Other Billionaires Backing A Nuclear Renaissance

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Let’s for a second imagine a world without nuclear energy. That’s a tough one but let’s try. No nuclear bombs, of course, no Chernobyl and Fukushima, no worries about Iran and North Korea. A wonderful world, maybe? Probably not, because without nuclear energy we would have burned millions more tons of coal and billions more … Read more

Vertical Spreads, Take them or Leave them?

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One of the new buzz words in the option industry is the vertical spread. Although they’ve been around for as long as option trading, popularity of the strategy has been on the rise due to historically challenging market volatility and a more sophisticated trading community. Option buyers look to vertical spreads as a means of … Read more

Four Arguments for Investing in Commodities

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It is always Darkest Before the Dawn: Four Arguments for Investing in Commodities The commodity asset class has become a pariah to most investors, the victim of a 5-year swan dive, with cumulative losses totaling over 50%, as measured by the Bloomberg Commodity Index. Despite recent returns, we maintain that a strategic allocation to the … Read more

13 Resources to Empower Women Investors

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At a time when women are still making less money than their male counterparts for equal work, the nonprofit Alliance for Investor Education (AIE) is now offering “Women and Investing: Resources to Empower Female Investors” at http://www.investoreducation.org/womeninvesting. AIE is a consortium of 15 leading U.S. financial-related foundations, nonprofit organizations, associations and governmental agencies. Whether it’s … Read more