Financial Sense Blog

May 10 – Stocks are very expensive in relation to corporate earnings. Even if rapid economic and profits growth resumes after the next recession, a secular decline in price-to-earnings ratios is likely to mute stock performance. Prof. Robert Shiller’s cyclically-adjusted...

May 7 – The good news: A U.S. economic recession has been delayed for another few years. The bad news: We could be looking at another Great Depression in 10 years. That's the outlook according to ITR Economics, the oldest privately held, continuously operating economic...

May 6 – Virtually every week this year confidence of a major trade agreement between the US and China has grown. Just a few days ago Trump surrogates spread rumors that a deal would be announced in a week. Suddenly, a lack of progress on trade deal enforcement terms...

May 1 – For well-prepared investors, retirement milestones are something to be celebrated. However, getting to the big day stress-free takes a lot of organization and planning...

May 1– There’s a common urban legend, said Marc Chandler, one the Federal Reserve even fosters— that the Fed kills business cycles. “People like Janet Yellen say the Fed is a murderer.” But to Chandler...

Apr 30 – An annual government report indicated Social Security’s costs are expected to exceed its income starting in 2020. When this last happened in 1982, the 1984 Social Security fix followed where Congress...

Apr 29 – With negative interest rates in Europe and Japan, exploding debt levels, and the growing popularity of radical monetary experiments like Modern Monetary Theory in the U.S., traditional safe-haven assets like gold are looking more and more...

Apr 26 – Though expectations continue to run high for positive impacts from a U.S.-China trade deal, it won’t change the economy or stock market’s fortune for long, says Felix Zulauf, head of Zulauf Asset Management and Zulauf Consulting. China and the U.S. are in the midst...

Apr 25 – High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, is a chronic concern in the United States. Around 75 million Americans suffer from high blood pressure and it has been the cause of more than 400,000...

Apr 25 – It wasn’t long ago that everyone seemed to be lowering their estimates for oil prices. Especially when, in last year’s fourth quarter, investment banks decreased estimates to the to the low 60s. Now we’ve hit the mid-60s with many predicting we could be...