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Median Household Incomes By Age Bracket: 1967-2017
Earlier this week, we updated our commentary on household income distribution to include the Census Bureau’s release of the 2017 annual data. Our focus was on arithmetic mean (average) household incomes by quintile (and the top 5%) over the 50+ year history of this data series. The analysis offered some fascinating insights into U.S. household incomes. But […]
Wall Street’s Top Stories For Friday,Oct. 19th
Stocks opened in positive territory as they tried to rebound from yesterday’s big selloff. The early strength was attributed to various earnings reports as well as a rebound in Asian stocks, which received a vote of confidence from China’s central bank. Throughout the morning the averages moved in a narrow range, but as the European […]
S&P 500, Dow Volatility Reflected In Deadlocked ETF Flows
The third week of October continued to offer significant volatility for equity markets. This week saw large intraday swings as bears and bulls weighed a number of fundamental themes that could impact the longer-term outlook for individual shares and indices as a whole. S&P 500 Hourly Price Chart October 2018 Despite the volatility and large price-swings, demand (as […]
The Time’s – And Oil’s – A ’Changin’
The oil market was shaken on Thursday. Well, for some traders anyway. In case you didn’t notice it, futures on light, sweet crude oil flipped from backwardation to contango. Did that sound like mumbo-jumbo? Let me explain. Contango describes a futures price curve in which contracts for distant deliveries trade at a premium to nearby […]
Asia-Pacific Calendar: The Week Ahead – Friday, Oct. 19
By Steven Levine (Video length 00:02:31) Interactive Brokers senior market analyst Steven Levine provides some highlights for what to look for in the Asia-Pacific region in the week beginning October 22.
How To Use The 4% Rule To Thrive In Retirement
Look at most any magazine or news story related to your money and retirement, and you are going to see outrageously high numbers for what your nest egg should look like. I think they do this just to sell some advertising. The real number you should be focusing on is the 4% rule. What is […]
Forbes, Laffer Ask Trump For Zero Tariffs, Zero Subsidies, And Zero Barriers
In a letter to Trump, the Committee to Unleash Prosperity seeks zero tariffs. There were several notable letter signees. Steve Forbes, Arthur Laffer, Fred Smith, and Stephen Moore on the Committee to Unleash Prosperity ask Trump to seize the high ground and give U.S. firms an advantage. Please consider the WSJ Op-Ed Mr. President, It’s Time […]
Income Opportunity Of The Week
CBL and AFSI. music selection: “Take Your Whiskey Home” — Van Halen Each Friday at the raptor, I explore opportunities in income investing. It has become sort of trendy in the FIRE community to go with a 100% allocation to equities. I think this is foolhardy. All the research proves that buy and hold investors […]
British Pound Rates Rise Across The Board On Irish Border Brexit Progress
The British Pound has found relief at the end of a trying week, rallying sharply in the past hour amid a news report provided hope for a Brexit breakthrough in the coming days. Bloomberg News reported that the UK government was prepared to drop its Irish border demands as a way to help ease the […]
The Bullish And Bearish Case For US Markets
(Audio length 00:12:08) Chris Temple joins me today to weigh the possibility of the US markets to continue to selloff or garner a buy. There are signs especially internationally that could lead to a further drop in US equities but on the other side, there is still a lot of liquidity in the markets.
