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Many investors have undoubtedly heard of the Federal Reserve System, even if they may not know exactly how it operates. But fewer have heard of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which actually makes the monetary policy decisions that the Fed carries out. The FOMC consists of the seven members...
With stock markets having been on a roller coaster over the past few weeks, and numerous investors undoubtedly watching their 401(k) balances in horror, financial markets haven’t been too kind to most people. Couple that with the prospect of GDP falling almost 25% as a result of business shutdowns...
Many investors may have been looking worriedly at the gold price over the past couple of weeks, seeing the price decline back to where it began the year. They may have been second-guessing their decision to invest in gold, wondering if it was really such a good idea after...
If you’re one of those people who trusts that the people at the top know what they’re doing and have things under control, you might want to stop now, because it’s becoming abundantly clear that they don’t know what they’re doing. That’s particularly true within the Federal Reserve System,...
The last couple of weeks have seen an unprecedented amount of Federal Reserve intervention in financial markets. Just to recap, here’s what the Fed had already done as of last Friday: Pledged up to $5.5 trillion in repo market liquidity; Cut its target federal funds rate to zero; Promised...
We’ve been warning about an oncoming financial crisis for a while now. The fact that a financial crisis would occur was all but inevitable, given the massive bubble blown by the Federal Reserve’s extraordinarily loose monetary policy over the last 12 years. But despite the numerous warning signs that...
You’ve probably heard it said that you can’t time markets. There’s definitely a lot of truth to that. Try to time when to get in and out of markets and you can second guess yourself into losing thousands of dollars. In many respects, trying to time markets is just...
The raft of Federal Reserve actions to bail out Wall Street had many people thinking that we’re going back to the days of 2008, when big banks got bailed out while the little people were forced to suffer. Major banks received trillions of dollars worth of federal assistance to...
There are undoubtedly millions of investors out there who still are heavily invested in stock markets. They enjoyed the gains they’ve seen over the past several years, with both the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 reaching all-time highs on a consistent basis. As a result, the number of...
The bad news just keeps getting worse for investors, as stock markets continue their slide. The Dow Jones lost 10% today, dropping over 2,350 points to end the day. Not even an unprecedented monetary policy action by the Fed was able to stop the loss, so investors who are...