by Uncommon Sense Investor | Mar 10, 2023 | Banking, Big Picture, Blogs, Investing, United States
“Because I was inverted.” – Tom Cruise as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in Top Gun ** So, the yield curve is inverted. What does that mean? Well, going back to the 1950s, it has a perfect track record of predicting recessions (except for one...
by Uncommon Sense Investor | Oct 14, 2022 | Big Picture, Blogs, Investing, Media, Stocks
This may not be the message you want to hear but we try to bring you a variety of points of view. The following opinions eventually may not be correct but they’re worth listening to. That’s because they come from a strategist team that is paid to monitor...
by Uncommon Sense Investor | Sep 23, 2022 | Big Picture, Blogs, Canada, Investing, Stocks
As interest rates continue to rise, there is increasing anxiety in financial markets about the possibility of some kind of credit event. The Financial Times has assembled a list of more than 200 companies that it calls “debt monsters in the downturn”,...
by Uncommon Sense Investor | Sep 13, 2022 | Big Picture, Blogs, Canada, Financial Planning, Investing, Stocks, Top Ideas
This has no doubt been a very challenging year for conservative 60/40 investors who have been told for so long that having a decent weighting in long-term bonds will help protect their portfolios during market corrections. We can’t blame them though, as it has been a...
by Mark Bunting | Mar 17, 2022 | Big Picture, Blogs, Canada, Investing, Top Ideas, United States
The bond market usually gets it right. And it’s saying Jerome Powell and his crew at the U.S. Federal Reserve may have already made another policy mistake. The first was to not recognize that inflation in the spring of 2020 was starting to take flight. It was...