Monthly Archives: October 2016

Your kids graduate from college and face an immediate dilemma: they have no credit history, which makes it harder for them to rent an apartment or get a credit card.  Is there a way the parents can help them without … Continue reading →

You haven’t heard much about the U.S. government’s debt, in part because, as a percentage of the economy, the growth of our national debt has slowed dramatically.  (See chart)  But measured on a global scale, the world’s $152 trillion of … Continue reading →

Pretty much everybody has access to the Internet.  Don’t they?  The actual global median of all countries is 67% of citizens, but access is not evenly distributed.  In the U.S., 89% of adults use the Internet at least occasionally, according … Continue reading →

The enduring popularity of gold as an investment has to do with its tangible nature.  Unlike a stock or a bond, you can feel and touch golden coins and larger ingots.  The problem with such tangible assets, of course, is … Continue reading →

You may have read that the British pound has had a very rough couple of weeks on world markets, losing more than 4% of its value against the dollar in one week, and continuing the slide through the next, finally … Continue reading →

You may have been reading something about problems with one of the world’s largest lending institutions—Deutsche Bank—without understanding what the issue was.  The bank has been reportedly due to pay a whopping $14 billion fine over its role in the … Continue reading →

100 days after the Brexit scare, three quarters of a year after the most recent Fed rate hike, the markets once again confounded the instincts of nervous investors and went up instead of down.  Last week, Fed Chairperson Janet Yellen … Continue reading →

If you drink coffee habitually, you’ll like this. A new study monitored the coffee intake of 208,500 men and women over the course of 30 years, and found that people who drink coffee in moderation (fewer than five cups a … Continue reading →

More than three months after British voters elected to extricate their economy from the European Union, Brexit still hasn’t actually happened.  What’s going on? Apparently nothing more than a careful process designed to minimize damage on both sides of the … Continue reading →