Today, many Americans’ retirement dreams are dependent upon two crucial incomes: Social Security benefits and personal savings—in tax-qualified retirement accounts, in personal, taxable formats, or a combination of both. As of 2014, the Social Security OASI Trust Fund had over $2.6 trillion in reserves,1 while aggregate retirement assets approached $25 trillion in first quarter of […]
What’s the Bottom Line? Keeping an Eye out for Wage Inflation
For years now, market prognosticators have been warning us to expect inflation and the resulting increase in interest rates. As fiscal theories postulate, how can we have so much monetary stimulus without triggering inflation at some point? As we all know, the Federal Reserve proactively flooded the economy with money to create stability in the […]
2 Superpowers Clients Believe We Possess (and 2 We Actually Do)
For thousands of years mankind has been obsessed with extraordinary abilities that, absent fictitious elements, are indeed extremely rare in this world. It is not just a modern-era, Western-only phenomenon—the Chinese culture has long had saints, gods and goddesses, and the like with unique, jaw-dropping abilities.1 This love for superpowers is ubiquitous and wished for […]
Real Estate Gets Its Own Place
As you may have noticed, there is a new sector in the S&P! The new sector designation was driven by changes to the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). These standards are developed and maintained by the Morgan Stanley Country Index (MSCI) and Standard & Poor’s Index (S&P). The goal of this classification system is to […]
3 Ways to Improve Your Financial Literacy (and Security)
Take a look at the following graph. It shows how American households spend their income broken down into three broad income groups.1 While it is normal for spending to become less problematic the more income a household makes, close to a third of respondents in the $100,000+ income category still spend more than they make. […]
Follow the Money: Corporations Place Their Bets
Globalization is a trend that continues full speed ahead. Because they consider it an important piece of data, economists and governmental agencies measure money flow between countries by tracking foreign investing. There are two types of foreign investments: direct and indirect. Indirect is the one observed every day as investments flows between countries’ equity and […]
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