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Financial Literacy — The 6 Skills Needed For Financial Literacy

Financial Literacy — The 6 Skills Needed For Financial Literacy

Financial literacy is the ability to understand and effectively use various financial skills, including personal financial management, budgeting, and investing. It involves being able to make informed decisions about financial matters and being able to understand and manage one's own financial situation. Achieving financial literacy can be a

The No. 1 Action Americans Do To Build Financial Independence

The No. 1 Action Americans Do To Build Financial Independence

If making more money is a primary focus for you this year, it makes it worthwhile to see what up-and-coming Americans are doing to make their way even closer to financial independence. In the Your Money survey, over 2 million people were surveyed on what they did to build wealth—

Everything You've Heard About Bond Yields Is Backwards

Everything You've Heard About Bond Yields Is Backwards

When Wall Street talks about bond yields, it's about playing better defense with stocks—but is everything Wall Street thinks about bond yields backwards?

5 Key Risk Management Tips

5 Key Risk Management Tips

The Two Rules of Investing Risk management is an important element to achieving long-term investment results but it often gets overlooked by investors as generating returns takes center stage. Due to the compounding effects of investment returns, losing money can be a catastrophe. That’s why Warren Buffett has two

The Real Cause of Hot Inflation—Real Rates

The Real Cause of Hot Inflation—Real Rates

In today's analysis, we're going to be analyzing the August CPI report which came out this morning hotter than expected, and dissect why inflation is being so stubborn. TLDR: Interest rates don't matter, real rates matter. But in order to understand the true driver

State of the Market Report

State of the Market Report

Key Takeaway: Declining fundamentals have only just begun. As Jerome Powell mentioned at Jackson Hole just a week ago, expect much more pain. Energy Prices In an interview with Bloomberg, Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said that OPEC, the world's largest crude exporter, was prepared to

Using Heat Maps To Find Portfolio Protection

Using Heat Maps To Find Portfolio Protection

Today the market opened in some pretty bearish territory. In periods of extreme bearish sentiment, interesting opportunities can reveal themselves for the savvy investor. One of the more interesting opportunities that can reveal themselves are stocks that zig when others zag. Traditionally, the beta of a stock tells us how

Is This The New Bull Market?

Is This The New Bull Market?

Is this the beginning of a new bull market, or have investors been lured into a bear trap? Today we review both cases and let you decide.

Rates Up, Markets Down - The 1970’s Great Inflation Is Back

Rates Up, Markets Down - The 1970’s Great Inflation Is Back

With prices rising at their fastest pace in over 40 years, the Federal Reserve moved to raise Federal Funds rates by another 0.75% to 2.5% this morning. The marks the fourth time the Central Bank has raised rates this year in an effort to break inflations back, which

Stock Market Investing - The Five Simple Rules

Stock Market Investing - The Five Simple Rules

Investing in the stock market doesn't have to be hard. So we put together 5 simple rules every investor must know when it comes to investing in the stock market. Control Your Emotions Success in investing often doesn't rely solely on intelligence, but also on emotional