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Weekly Touchpoint: Subprime Loans Defaulting at Rates HIGHER than 2008

22 May

The real story about where an economy is headed is often found just beneath the surface. Headlines about interest rates, trade wars, and geopolitical discord are obviously important indicators of potential financial crisis. However, investors planning for a secure retirement should also look at the less obvious pieces of information that can be every bit as revealing as the headlines. • An example of one such piece of information is the rate at which auto loans are tanking right now. If you believe the popular na...

Warren Buffett Misses Mark on Gold Investment at Meeting

18 May

Far be it from me to disagree with the “Oracle of Omaha,” but I think Warren Buffett may have been a bit simplistic when he “proved” to attendees of Berkshire Hathaway’s recent annual shareholder meeting that stocks – rather than gold – are always the way to invest. Let me explain… As reported by a recent article at Yahoo! Finance, Buffett used the occasion to relate an anecdote about just how much better off everyone is by investing in American business through the equities markets and not in gol...

Weekly Touchpoint: Putin Asks Nations to Break Free of America’s “Dangerous Dollar Monopoly”

16 May

Russia is not alone in this plea. Higher interest rates could be the most immediate threat to the stock market, but other dangers to America’s economic well-being could be even more perilous. Respected economic experts are saying one of the biggest threats may be the globally growing effort to supplant the U.S. dollar as the official currency of international trade, a change that could potentially bring about the very collapse of the dollar as we know it. • Russian President Vladimir Putin used his recent inaug...