(Note: Why is a title insurance company writing about investing and hedging tools like credit default swaps? Because the potential risk to the economy and to the financial well-being of all Americans would affect every industry and every business, title insurance included!) As a result of the travel firm Thomas Cook filing for bankruptcy a few days ago, […]
Remember the 2008 financial crisis? Of course you do as it crushed many individuals along with entities entrusted as fiduciary’s that were managing OPM or, other peoples money! In the era leading-up to the implosion of the global financial markets, more than a few titans of finance from Wall Street to the streets of small school […]
Derivatives…Derivatives? D-E-R-I-V-A-T-I-V-E-S! Most if not everyone who reads this article has heard the term derivatives at some point in time. And when they have, it’s likely been in the context of how these financial instruments that are not typically seen and not really understood by the masses are actually fiscal time bombs that, if ever detonated, could bring […]
Reading or listening to business news one hears many opinions on where it is that Americans should be investing their money for the long-term! Equity fund managers and those individuals responsible for selling equities will say that historically it’s the stock market. Gold bugs will of course say gold or other storable metals and believers […]
