The Gold Rush: Will It Continue?
Over the past decade, the price of gold has increased by nearly 350%. That’s an annualized rate of return exceeding 16% per year. At the same time, the S&P 500 stock index, including dividends, returned about 0%. Most investment portfolios would have benefited from an allocation in gold. Here are four reasons why the price […]
TARP Recipients
It has been years since the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, commonly referred to as a bailout of the U.S. financial system, became law. Lest we forget, the bailout was in response to bad loans and cascading losses at financial institutions including the collapse or near-collapse of Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman […]