How College Broke the American Dream
Total student loan debt in the U.S. is a staggering $1.8 trillion. Here’s the impact on the next generation and our economy.
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U.S. Economy
Your Stock Market Cheat Sheet: Inflation, Crypto & More
In this week’s Market Insights, Ian King and Amber Lancaster take a look at the economy, cryptos and a major tech mega trend.
“When It’s Time to Buy, You Won’t Want To”
It can feel terrifying to decide whether now is the time to invest or if it’s time to wait on the sidelines. Here’s what Ian King recommends.
How Wall Street Really Works (2022 Edition)
Human beings are NOT machines. We’re driven by natural instincts that can send asset prices swinging like a pendulum. Fear and greed, fight or flight … these basic emotions are the primary cause behind the market’s violent up-and-down moves. Shifting from one emotion to the other can radically alter the market’s course, which is why we’ve seen growth stocks plunge so far so fast in 2022. It’s enough to make me wonder whether my college years may have been better served studying psychology! Today I’m going to show you the pendulum on full display and what you can do to cash in on the market’s volatile emotional swings.
The Fed’s $8,000/Year “Mortgage Tax”
Inflation is caused by a mismatch between supply and demand. The Federal Reserve can’t increase the supply of goods and services. So, to control prices it must engineer “demand destruction.” That’s as nasty as it sounds. I’ve already explained how the Fed uses the “wealth effect” to make households with lots of stocks cut spending … and why that strategy won’t work with U.S. wealth concentrated in so few hands. I also explored how big changes in the U.S. and global economy since the 1970s will force the Fed to raise interest rates A LOT to bring inflation down. Today, we’re going to look at the impact of their demand destruction on U.S. households.
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