Feb 21, 2024 – With precision sensing applications establishing the first beachheads, quantum technologies have reached operational reality. Promising disruptions across industries and intensifying geopolitical competition...
Feb 16, 2024 – As financial markets continued their impressive run throughout 2023, retirees with IRAs and 401(k)s are facing higher required minimum distributions (RMDs) in 2024. The record-setting market performance of 2023...
Feb 5, 2024 – In this article, I’ll cover some of the key stories of 2023 and then focus on the likelihood of a soft landing for the economy with a look at monetary policy, economic growth, the earnings outlook, and geopolitical risks...
Jan 19, 2024 – Our belief is that there will primarily be one call to get correct—one call to rule them all—and that is whether the US economy has a hard landing (recession) or soft one. Getting this call right can set the tone for everything else as...
Jan 12, 2024 – Throughout history, we’ve seen numerous instances where capital heavily concentrates into a single company or a small cluster of stocks, such as the Nifty 50 growth stocks in the 1970s or the tech sector in the late 1990s. Often, such herding...
Jan 4, 2024 – The journey towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has been a long-standing pursuit within the AI community. The striking progress made by Google's new Gemini model has prompted a significant update towards...
Dec 14, 2023 – In a recent interview with FS Insider, well-known investment strategist Felix Zulauf discussed his macro outlook for 2024, including a bull run in the stock market into the first quarter of 2024 followed by the potential...
Dec 5, 2023 – The past decade has seen unprecedented levels of deficit spending and debt accumulation by the US government. According to the data, this unsustainable path will eventually lead to fiscal and economic crises if...
Nov 10, 2023 – High inflation, labor strikes, a major hostage crisis and war in the Middle East are just a small handful of the events considered hallmarks of the 1970s period. Amazingly, we see these same events...
Nov 1, 2023 – The truth is that as we get older, health challenges and unexpected events are more likely to occur. Therefore, I have provided below 15 important asset & debt, tax planning, insurance planning, and estate planning items...