Hyperinflation Warning Signs
Hyperinflation of the US Dollar is a serious threat in the coming months and years. This economic outlook video looks into factors which could affect your life. This series of videos began here. In this hyperinflation update video, we examine factors such as the ominous level which was recently breached as US Treasury interest rates […]
How Do Falling Interest Rates Affect Bonds?
Falling Interest Rates are much more exciting for someone who owns bonds. We looked at the affects of rising interest rates recently and now we’ll examine the opposite scenario. This scenario would work to your benefit as the holder of the original bond. If you own the same bond we mentioned previously with a $1000 […]
What is a Bond?
What is a bond? Everyone has heard of bonds, but do you know what a bond is? Most people have some vague idea, but when pressed, can’t exactly explain what they are or how they work. The bond market is far larger than the stock market and you absolutely must understand it to comprehend the […]
Investing in Financial Companies
Investing in financial companies is a very intriguing way to protect against inflation. We’ve been discussing asset management in a crazy economy. We last looked at Treasury Bonds, How to defend against inflation with them, and How to short them. Today we’ll look at this out of the box method that many of the world’s […]
Shorting Treasury Bonds
Shorting Treasury Bonds is a way to directly speculate on higher interest rates and inflation. We’ve been discussing asset management in a crazy economy. The last several posts have been about the effects of inflation on bonds and how it affects you. Today, we’ll discuss shorting Treasury Bonds. As we’ve said many times, we believe […]
What’s the safest kind of Bond?
A bond is a promise to pay you a stream of future payments with your principle being returned at the end of the holding period. We’ve been discussing asset management in a crazy economy. In the last couple posts, we began looking at the devastating effects of inflation on a bond. Today we’ll look at […]
US Treasury Speculations & Treasury Bonds
The US Treasury issues Treasury Bonds, but if the value of the Dollar drops because of all this borrowing (and printing by the Fed), your Dollar could be worth much less soon. We’ve been discussing asset management in a crazy economy. We last looked at International Investing as well as Blue Chip Investing. We believe […]
Gold & Silver Company Investing (Pt 1)
Gold & Silver Miners, Gold and Silver Streamers, & Leveraged Gold ETF’s are three ways to potentially achieve greater appreciation than the movement on the price of gold (or silver) itself. In this & the following posts, we’ll discuss each of these. We’ve been discussing asset management in a crazy economy. We’re using the broad […]
Financial Advice for Hyperinflation (Part 1)
As we continue our discussion of hyperinflation from last week, traditional financial advice will be worthless and destructive during hyperinflation. As a matter of fact, if hyperinflation happens (we’ve been discussing the reasons why it might here), most everyone will be totally starting over financially when we come out of it. We’re going to spend […]
Inflation & the Four Outcomes of the European Debt Crises
Inflation can be deadly to your financial well being. We’ve been discussing the factors which could bring serious inflation to this country soon. Friday, we looked at the reasons that Europe’s sovereign debt crises will be our debt and inflation crises soon. Today, we’ll follow up by looking at the four possible outcomes that could […]