by Ted Bauman | Oct 12, 2021 | Bauman Daily, Investing, Quantitative Easing
In a Bauman Daily article a few weeks back, I talked about the danger of assuming that the future would be just like the present. The human brain is wired to do exactly that. Our survival as a species depends on our ability to learn from experience. And recent...
by Angela Jirau | Oct 11, 2021 | Bauman Daily, ETFs, Investing
Friday’s jobs report bombed. It was a huge miss from expectations. This suggests we might be at the end of an economic growth cycle. If we are, the big question is: Where should your money be? Even more important, where should it NOT be? In today’s Your Money Matters,...
by Ted Bauman | Oct 5, 2021 | Bauman Daily, Bond Yields, COVID-19, Evergrande, Investing, Market Volatility, Treasury, U.S. Economy, Volatilility
Predicting the future direction of the stock market is a damned if you do, damned if you don’t proposition. That’s why some analysts avoid it altogether. They say you can safely ignore the ups and downs of an index like the S&P 500. Others say that predicting...
by Angela Jirau | Oct 1, 2021 | Bauman Daily, Evergrande, Federal Reserve, Investing, news, Stock Investing, U.S. Economy
Ted held a LIVE YouTube event on Friday, October 1, 2021. The topic? The biggest threats facing the markets. Investors endured a series of shocks the last two weeks of September. Evergrande. An energy crisis. A week of political brinkmanship. But what’s next? Ted...
by Ted Bauman | Sep 29, 2021 | Bauman Daily, ETF, Interest Rates, Investing, Investing Strategy, Investment Opportunities, Trading Strategies, Treasury
Stocks keep getting whipsawed. That much is evident with yesterday’s 570-point plunge in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. And when you flip to the news to find out what’s going on, you hear about political brinksmanship involving spending bills, the debt ceiling and...
by Ted Bauman | Sep 28, 2021 | Bauman Daily, Economy, Federal Reserve, Investing, Investing Basics, Investing Strategy, Trading Strategies
Recently, someone I follow on Twitter recounted how a friend had invested some money for his child. He expected an annual average return of 16% on that investment. He based this on the compound annual return of the total U.S. stock market over the last decade. There’s...
