For financial historians and serious market observers, the current era has all the signs of a developing market bubble.Money is abundant, a wide range of financial assets have risen to record or near-record levels, and enormous amounts of money are flowing into stocks. Private equity funds are flourishing and bonds continue to attract huge sums. […]
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Economic Recovery: Massive Problems Ahead [2021]
How strong and lasting is the current rebound we are seeing in the economy? What about the resurgence in inflation? Those are major debates raging on Wall Street right now. This week’s WEALTHTRACK guest is looking beyond the current rebound and focusing on what he sees as massive problems which will act as drags on […]
Inflation Is Temporary: Bullishness on the Economy & Markets Is Wrong
The consensus for the economy is bullish. After a 6.4% annualized increase in real GDP, that’s without inflation, in the first quarter, recent forecasts are for 10% GDP growth in the second quarter, 7.5% in the 3rd, and 5% in the fourth.As for inflation expectations, they are up. Again the consensus is that the combination […]
New Opportunities and Challenges for Bond Investors
Times they are a-changin’…With COVID vaccinations becoming widespread, savings rates high, and consumers ready to spend, the economy is reopening and rebounding with gusto. All of these developments are creating new opportunities and challenges for bond investors. Bond prices fall when interest rates rise and vice versa. After a 40-year bull market in bonds, with […]
Equity-Like Returns With Less Than Stock Market Risk
“Jack be nimble Jack be quick” isn’t a concept one usually associates with long term value investors but sometimes extraordinary times call for exceptional responses. The first quarter of 2020 was one such event for this week’s guest.Steven Romick, who has appeared on WEALTHTRACK since our launch in 2005 rarely does television interviews which is […]
An Embarrassment of Riches in the High Growth Stock Universe
There is a rule of thumb on Wall Street that when a fund knocks it out of the park in any given year or has an exceptional winning streak for a couple of years it is bound to fall to earth sooner rather than later and lag the market, its peers, or both for several […]