by RCD-DEV | Jan 1, 2016 | Finance
There’s China And Then The Rest Of The World Yesterday, the Federal government released the latest employment report. It was a shocking 40% higher than last month! The employment report is a major indicator how healthy our economy is. More employment...
by RCD-DEV | Nov 21, 2015 | Finance
Best Interest Imagine that you are the captain of a whaling ship in the 18th century. The financial benefits of successful trips generated significant wealth, but the downside was leaving your family and property for months on end. You need a reliable, trustworthy...
by RCD-DEV | Oct 16, 2015 | Finance
We See What We Want To See Something funny happens when we make up our minds about a particular idea. We start looking for evidence to support our idea or theory. But in the process, we tend to ignore anything that contradicts our thinking. Often we go looking for...
by RCD-DEV | Sep 16, 2015 | Finance
Stock Market Behavior When Interest Rate Rise Since 1920, during the twelve months after interest rates rose, stocks rose 13 out of 16 times. The average gain for the S&P 500 index (stocks) was 16.2%. For the thirty-year period 1951-1981. interest rates went up...
by RCD-DEV | Aug 27, 2015 | Finance
Can You Feel It? Notice the different reactions on the faces of people riding a roller coaster. Behavioral economists tell us that investors feel the pain of loss about three times more than we enjoy the gain. It is just being human.The benefit of this area of...
by RCD-DEV | Aug 21, 2015 | Finance
Whew! Glad That’s Over With… It seems that we may be in the midst of a good ole stock market correction. A correction is when a stock market index loses 10% or of its value from the peak. As of this morning, the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 are...
