The news from North and South Korea has been all good lately. The North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un, has agreed to meet with President Trump, has met with South Korean President Moon, and has even traveled to South Korea; being the first North Korean leader to do so since the Korean War armistice
GBI is the new buzz phrase that’s the talk of academia, Silicon Valley and the elites on both coasts. It stands for guaranteed basic income. It’s really just welfare by another name, but it would apply to a much broader group than just the poor and you would not have to pass any income tests
The word “hoarding” may conjure up images of pack rats piling old newspapers and magazines up to the ceiling. But it’s actually an economic term with a technical meaning. Hoarding in economics refers to the acquisition of an asset which is held, and not spent, transferred or used in transactions. Gold hoarding means the acquisition
The investing world is usually divided into stock and bond investors and those who look at foreign exchange and commodities such as gold. Usually those two worlds do not collide. So, it’s a big deal when someone in the stock and bond world crosses over to take a look at gold. That’s what just
Inflation is generally associated with a fast rising economy. Much of the rise may be nominal, not real, because price indices are rising faster than the real economy. But at least there’s some real growth underneath the froth. Deflation is the opposite. Deflation is associated with declining prices, recession and depression. According to economists’
The attached graph has powerful information and might make a good addition to our website or marketing materials. The dark blue line is the actual path of interest rates on the 10-year Treasury note from 2000-2018. The lighter colored lines are a consensus of professional forecasters, color-coded by year, with recent forecasts going out to 2020. So,
What if you could see into the future? What if your investment strategy relied on advance knowledge of how world markets and business trends would play out? Well, it may sound like science fiction, but one team is making it a reality. The experts at Meraglim™ have created a predictive analytics system using AI technology
There’s never a dull moment in geopolitics. The North Korean crisis has calmed down, at least temporarily. Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump are preparing for a peace summit, probably in early June at a location yet to be determined. Kim Jong Un is making verbal concessions about denuclearizing the Korean peninsula and discontinuing nuclear
We’re all familiar with the so-called “run on the bank.” It usually begins quietly with just a few depositors getting nervous about the solvency of the bank. They line up to get their cash out before the bank closes its doors. Soon the word spreads and the line gets longer. The bank projects an air
