Markets Demystified

In addition to low odds of consistent success, day trading may take more time than the average investor has available. Music from “Break to the Beat” by Jonny Ray. Click to view.

Inflation targeting is a relatively new practice started by New Zealand in 1990, with the US adopting an explicit 2% target in 2012. Stubbornly low inflation following the Great Recession started a “lower for longer” era of interest rates, which may be ending amid post-pandemic price pressures. Music from “Break to the Beat” by Jonny Ray. Click to view.

More than 50 years after Milton Friedman famously declared corporations only exist to serve shareholders, CEOs and researchers appear to be coming to a collective consensus that businesses perform best by focusing on all their stakeholders. Click to view. Music from “Break to the Beat” by Jonny Ray.

Though funds with higher liquidity may be a requirement for traders, long-term retirement investors may prefer funds that although may be less liquid, are also less expensive. Click to view. Music from “Break to the Beat” by Jonny Ray.

We analyzed outcomes of 21 hypothetical investors, with results showing smaller, more frequent purchases may be a better strategy for retirement investors than larger, less frequent purchases. Click to view. Music from “Break to the Beat” by Jonny Ray.

Though the Fed has not ruled out raising rates again, with an historic hiking cycle possibly nearing an end, are markets switching from a good-news-is-bad-news to a good-news-is-good-news sentiment? Click to read.

Markets have been trying to guess when the Fed will end the fastest rate hiking cycle in a generation. A slew of mixed economic data amid banking turmoil have whipsawed views about the Fed’s path forward. Click to view.

Despite being created to increase trust in financial systems, crypto markets may be more affected by manipulation than stocks. Recent crypto charges and a crypto exchange review reveals that digital assets are likely awash in the manipulative practice of wash trading. Click to read.

Following failures of US banks, some saw the Fed ending their rate hiking regime early to avoid causing further financial fallout. Though the Fed followed through with another hike, they acknowledged potentially tighter lending conditions resulting from the bank busts may do some of their inflation-fighting work for them. Click to read.

Bernie Madoff ran the biggest pyramid scheme ever, undetected, for at least nearly two decades. Could the same thing happen again? Click to read.