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Deflation Protection and other Asset Allocation Examples
There is no end to the possibilities of asset allocation. We are going to list several examples of asset allocation here over the next couple weeks because it seems like a good way to understand the mindset in creating each allocation.
We’re going to look at this mostly from the [...]
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Falling Interest Rates are much more exciting for someone who owns bonds. We looked at the affects of rising interest rates recently and now we’ll examine the opposite scenario.
This scenario would work to your benefit as the holder of the original bond. If you own the same bond we mentioned previously with a $1000 denomination, [...]
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Hyperinflation to the US Dollar is a serious threat in the coming months and years. This economic outlook video looks into factors which could affect your life. This series of videos began here. In this hyperinflation update video, we start out with the very scary statement by the Treasury Secretary that we will [...]
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Bond pricing is important to understand when interest rates are rising. We’ll continue our discussion by focusing today on rising rates and then moving to falling rates…
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It’s important that you understand how bonds are priced if you’re considering owning one or more of them. In its purest form, the way a bond works is simple to understand. However, most people never own a bond in this way, so it becomes important that you understand how they are actually priced in the [...]
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Foreign Bonds or Emerging Market Bonds, which is better?
The United States is obviously not the only country which issues bonds. You can buy foreign bonds issued by other industrial power governments as well as foreign corporations. As mentioned previously, you have currency risk when you go outside the US Dollar with your investments, but if [...]
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What types of bonds can you invest in and how are they different? As we’ve been alluding, there are many types of bonds, including: municipal, US government, foreign government, corporate, mortgage-backed or asset-backed securities, and agency bonds. Preferred Stocks are also very similar to bonds and in fact are much more similar to what we’re [...]
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Shorting Treasury Bonds is a way to directly speculate on higher interest rates and inflation. We’ve been discussing asset management in a crazy economy. The last several posts have been about the effects of inflation on bonds and how it affects you. Today, we’ll discuss shorting Treasury Bonds. As we’ve said many times, we believe [...]
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Treasury Bonds are how the US borrows so much money. We’ve been discussing asset management in a crazy economy. In the last post in this series, we’ve shown how inflation and rising interest rates affect Treasury Bonds. Today, we’ll get into an example and see how it affects you.
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