by Lance Roberts | Oct 2, 2018 | alerts, Real Investment Advice, Uncategorized
On December 5th, 1996, during a televised speech then Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan stated: “Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We can see that...
by Lance Roberts | Oct 1, 2018 | alerts, Real Investment Advice
Last week, James Rickards posted an interesting article discussing the risk to the financial markets from the rise in passive indexing. To wit: “Free riding is one of the oldest problems in economics and in society in general. Simply put, free riding describes a...
by Lance Roberts | Sep 28, 2018 | alerts, Real Investment Advice
Without much fanfare or public discussion, Congress has decided to push the U.S. into deeper fiscal responsibility. Earlier this week, the House passed another Continuing Resolution (CR) to keep the government from “shutting down” prior to the mid-term elections. “The...
by Lance Roberts | Sep 27, 2018 | alerts, Real Investment Advice
This bull market seems unstoppable. Regardless of short-term events, investors have quickly looked beyond those risks to in a bid to push stock prices higher. For example, in February of this year the markets dove roughly 10% as “trade wars” became a “thing.” Over...
by Lance Roberts | Sep 25, 2018 | alerts, Real Investment Advice, Uncategorized
Yesterday, the market sold off modestly over continuing concerns of “tariffs” and trade wars. At least that was the headline reason. The real reason was simply that the market is overbought in the short-term and traders were taking profits in a...
