On the morning of September 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key penned the first verse of The Star Spangled Banner on the back of a letter as he watched with pride as a group of US soldiers raised the American flag over Fort McHenry a day after...
More than 60 million Americans had their identities stolen in 2018, a significant increase from 2015, where more than 15 million consumers were affected. With identity theft numbers on the rise, it certainly doesn’t appear likely that...
The latest economic news may be causing an unsettling tinge of trepidation for investors, which is certainly understandable. The most ominous sign is the Treasury yield curve inversion. The figure below illustrates that prior to the most current yield curve inversion1, it has inverted...
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Domestic equity markets posted another month of positive returns, reaching new all-time highs, as investors priced in the upcoming Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) rate cut decision. On July 30 and 31, the FOMC met and decided to lower the target range for the federal funds rate to...
A year ago, the Federal Reserve (the Fed) was well along its path to normalize short-term interest rates and shrink its massive balance sheet, reversing a decade of cheap money and...
Managing finances properly is mainly common sense. While we’ve all made financial mistakes, most of those mistakes are easily rectified, particularly when...
Puerto Ricans flooded the streets of San Juan this week to protest a government many of them see as dishonest and even scornful toward the island’s people. A corruption scandal combined with the release of...
Here we are on the eve of another rate-setting meeting by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), and the markets seem to be
feeling pretty good. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (the Dow) is coming off its...