Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell beat back the market’s most aggressive predictions for the path of interest rates Wednesday, setting off a dovish surge in stocks and bonds.
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The Federal Reserve and other central banks took ownership of the bond markets during the pandemic with zero-bound rates. Now they are busy breaking them.
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Signs of trouble continue to show up in the world’s largest, most liquid government-securities market as government bonds logged their worst week in years and the U.S. central bank’s interest rate hiking cycle gets under way.
The U.S. bond market reeled further on Tuesday, extending Monday’s declines after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s aggressive rate hike comments drove yields on short-dated Treasuries to one of their biggest daily jumps of the past decade.
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Judging by the volume of commentary from a parade of pundits on every major financial news outlet … .. you’d think stocks are the undisputed champ for wealth building. Meanwhile, real assets … things like real estate and gold … are largely ignored as boring relics for the unsophisticated and fearful. Then a pesky thing
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There’s a lot of doom, gloom, and uncertainty out there. MANY of the super-smart people we hang out with are preparing for a really ROCKY road ahead. Of course, we’re big fans of being prepared. As we often say … “Better to be prepared and not have a crisis, than to have a crisis and not
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What a difference a week makes! Last time we commented on the big news about the world’s most famous real estate guy potentially using the tax laws to reduce his federal income taxes to virtually zero. Since then, as you probably know, the news has been dominated by President Trump’s illness, hospitalization, treatment, and return to the White House.
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We’re proudly filing this under the category of “We told you so.” …. Stripe workers who relocate get $20,000 bonus and a pay cut – Bloomberg, 9/15/20 “Stripe Inc. plans to make a one-time payment of $20,000 to employees who opt to move out of San Francisco, New York or Seattle, but also cut their base
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Lockdowns, restrictions, eviction moratoriums, civil unrest, election hysteria. Fun times. It’s enough to make a real estate investor order one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer … assuming you could find an open bar. But before you reach for the Valium and TV remote, remember … “Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary
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Mega-billionaire investor Warren Buffett made big news recently when he made a move into gold mining shares … while dumping big banks and Goldman Sachs. This surprise move is notable for several reasons and there are important lessons and actionable insights for Main Street real estate investors. While we could dive into how this move is being construed by some as a vote of
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