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Investment Outlook 2024: Asset Class Performance Forecast

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The financial horizon beckons with uncertainty and opportunity as we await a new year. In this comprehensive investment outlook for 2024, we scrutinize the trajectories of key asset classes—Bonds, Stocks, Oil, and Gold—offering insights that ...

10-Year Treasury Yields at 2.8% in 2024?

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If you have ever taken a Finance course, you probably remember how nominal interest rates are set. In case you forgot: Nominal Interest Rate = Expected Inflation + Inflation Premium (Real Interest Rate) Sounds so ...

Projected Inflation 2023: Assessing the FED’s Performance

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Grading the Federal Reserve on Stability, Employment, and Interest Rates In the economic landscape 2023, we’re scrutinizing the Federal Reserve’s approach, under Chair Jerome Powell, to its three pivotal goals: ensuring “price stability,” maintaining ample ...

Is It a Good Time to Invest in Real Estate

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US Housing Market Current Investment Outlook The real estate market is a fundamental pillar of personal wealth in the United States, consistently demonstrating its prowess over the long term. In recent years, real estate investments ...

QQQ Annual Returns: Small Progress, Big Wins

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Your Best Tech ETF for Long Term In the world of money matters, like with QQQ Annual Returns, things often go against what we might expect. Instead of relying on a few big wins, success ...

How to Use Leverage in Trading

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Exploring the Ideal Market Portfolio If you’ve explored economics or finance, you’ve likely encountered the CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing Model), a pivotal concept often discussed in the realm of leverage in trading. The essence of ...

Understanding the Time Lag in FED Inflation Policy

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Imagine the Federal Reserve (FED) as the conductor of a financial orchestra, trying to keep inflation in harmony. One important note in their song is the “time lag.” In this article, we look at why ...

Oil Price Projections: The S-Curve, EVs, and the Future of Energy

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If I could turn back time 20 or 30 years, one concept I’d want to grasp sooner is the S-Curve. Understanding the S-Curve and its implications on oil price projections would have been invaluable. The ...

EURUSD Forecast: The Road to 1.20 Level and Beyond

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In this EURUSD Forecast September 2023, we revisit our prior examination, initially discussed in the article EURUSD Forecast: Is the EUR finally out of the Woods? Our earlier assessment provided insights suggesting that the Euro ...

Opinion: The Federal Reserve Needs to Be Regulated

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A Call for Accountability, Transparency, and Global Foresight First, let’s start with some history – The Federal Reserve (the Fed) was established in 1913 with the Federal Reserve Act after a series of market crashes, ...