Do you remember anything from 1981? Maybe you listened to early ’80s music on your Sony Walkman. Perhaps you played Pac-Man at the local arcade. Or maybe you watched Muhammad Ali’s final boxing match. Heck, I bet some of you weren’t even around in 1981. After all, it was a generation ago. I’m writing about …
Halloween is fast approaching… It’s a joyous night for kids. They’ll get plenty of candy. However, if you’ve followed the markets for any length of time, you know October is much scarier for the markets… In short, throughout history, October is known as a month of crashes and market blowouts. And the thing is… many …
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Two campers are walking through the woods. Out of nowhere, a grizzly bear appears… The first camper starts to run. The second camper shouts ahead to the first camper that they’ll never outrun the bear. It’s too fast. That’s when the first camper reveals his true goal… He tells the second camper that he isn’t …
These days, debt levels are rising alongside higher interest rates and persistent inflation… As I said yesterday, I call this dangerous mixture the “trinity of trouble.” Delinquencies are creeping higher, too. They’re not at record highs by any stretch. But some companies are already feeling the pressure more directly than others… In fact, one group …
Folks, a dangerous combination is brewing beneath the surface today… In fact, it’s what I like to call the “trinity of trouble.” When inflation and interest rates rise together, it puts a huge strain on U.S. consumers. That’s happening today, of course. And it’s even worse when a third factor is rising as well… You …
Imagine your pension is about to get destroyed… because the folks in charge screwed up. That almost happened in the U.K. last week… Like here in the U.S. and almost everywhere in the world, the U.K. is trying to fight high inflation. And to do that, the Bank of England has been hiking its key …
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You’ve probably heard the acronym “TINA” before… It stands for “There Is No Alternative.” And in this case, it refers to the stock market. In many ways, TINA was the key to long-term success since the last financial crisis ended in 2009… Folks saving for retirement had no alternatives to grow their wealth. They needed …
Maybe you think of Adobe (ADBE) as the PDF-reader company… Or maybe you remember the company’s once-ubiquitous Adobe Flash web tools. But you might not know that Adobe is now a subscription-revenue powerhouse… In 2021, 73% of Adobe’s revenue came from its “digital media” segment. And that segment mostly focuses on the company’s Creative Cloud …
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The Federal Reserve has a trick up its sleeve when it comes to interest-rate hikes. And importantly, it’s playing out right now… It’s called the “balance sheet runoff.” You see, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Fed started buying bonds to keep interest rates low. That process is known as “quantitative easing” – or “QE,” for …
When inflation is this high, a recession always happens… It happened in the early 1980s. And it happened every other time inflation rose above 5%. The reason is the Federal Reserve. It needs to raise interest rates in response. That’s the central bank’s primary tool to fight inflation when it gets too high. Specifically, in …
