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January 2012
January 27, 2012 01:30 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review Central banks dominated the news this week with significant changes at the Federal Reserve. The Fed and the European Central Bank have had a stop-and-go money creation policy since the financial crisis accelerated in 2008. That appears to be in the past. This year […]
December 2011
December 23, 2011 01:30 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review I wish all of you a good holiday and happy New Year. Unless something significant happens in the next week, I’ll be taking a break next week and will send the next e-mail after the first week of January. Thanks to all of you […]
November 2011
December 1, 2011 11:15 a.m. Responding to the Central Bankers’ Big Move Central bankers made a big splash Nov. 30 with coordinated announcements to make dollar loans available to European banks at lower interest rates. Global markets in risky assets responded with large gains. Here’s my take. There’s been a quiet run on European banks […]
October 2011
October 31, 2011 12:15 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review Last week was a wild, euphoric one in the markets, and it capped off a great month for equity investors. Stocks had their best month since 1974. The major indexes rose over 12%. A collection of good news hit the market recently. Of course, […]
September 2011
September 27, 2011 10:45 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review You probably noticed that I changed the delivery date of this week’s e-mail. I plan to move our weekly discussion to Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Many of you told me that your e-mail inboxes are crowded on Mondays and Fridays. Tuesday and Wednesday are better […]
July – August 2011
August 26, 2011 12:45 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review It’s up to Congress now. That’s the word from Ben Bernanke in his much-anticipated speech Friday in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. A few people circulated rumors earlier in the week that the Fed chairman would announce a new round of quantitative easing, and that caused […]
June 2011
June 30, 2011 11:00 a.m. The Week in Review The trading week and the quarter are winding down, and it’s been a very interesting week in the markets, economy, and world of personal finance. Let’s take a look at the highlights. The Data There were only a few pieces of economic data this week. The […]
May 2011
May 25, 2011 10:00 a.m. It’s Not All About Europe The stock indexes are set up for a fourth consecutive day of losses, and gold is trading at a multi-year high. The headlines say this is all caused by the latest episode in the long-running European debt crisis. That debt crisis certainly is a problem, […]
