by Uncommon Sense Investor | May 2, 2022 | Big Picture, Blogs, Investing, United States
In volatile and uncertain times investors continue to flock to the U.S. dollar. That’s despite predictions by some that the greenback will eventually be usurped as the world’s king currency by the yuan or Bitcoin. Fat chance says Daniel Lacalle, a PhD...
by Mark Bunting | Jan 25, 2022 | Banking, Big Picture, Blogs, Investing, United States
The Federal Reserve appears to be stuck in an endless cycle. One of leaving interest rates too low for too long, creating market bubbles, seeing those bubbles pop, leading to stock market downturns and sometimes recession, leading to a lowering of rates again despite...
by Uncommon Sense Investor | Feb 18, 2021 | Big Picture, Blogs, Canada, Healthcare, Investing, Media, Stocks, United States
Inflation is supposedly benign. The massive amounts of fiscal and monetary policy stimulus unleashed due to the pandemic have not resulted in higher prices. That’s what the Consumer Price Index (CPI) numbers showed from StatsCan, which had January consumer...