BLS: Employment Rates
The BLS released State Employment and Unemployment and reported the following: Unemployment rates were lower in January in 19 states, higher in 2 states and the District of Columbia, and…
JOLTS: 11.3 Million and CPI: 7.9 Percent!
Lots of intriguing data released this week. First the BLS released their latest JOLTS report and shows 11.3 million job openings. From BLS: The number of job openings was little…
Graphical View of Defensive Portfolio 2022-2030 Part II
We covered Part I of our graphical view of defensive portfolio yesterday so today we will cover the other stocks we think are worth holding in our portfolio for the…
Graphical View of Defensive Portfolio 2022-2030 Part I
With market chaos we thought perhaps now would be a good time to take a graphical view of our defensive portfolio that we are building. Keep in mind that we…
Nibbling At The Market Today
They say a picture is worth a thousand words so what do you think this one states? The S&P closed down 2.95% today and while our PUTS are in the…
US Ban on Russian Oil? US gas at $4/gal? What’s Next?
Savvy investors should always be looking for opportunities in any economic environment good or bad and while the bad news keeps piling up, there are opportunities to be found. First,…
Buying Insurance on S&P 500
With all the potential chaos around financial markets including the Russian financial meltdown, possible defaults, and other wild card scenarios we thought it would be prudent to buy PUTS on…
Rural Demographics in Decline
An interesting article by Reid Wilson had an update on population demographics and the news is a bit glum since it reports that rural areas of the United States have…
Batten Down The Hatches and Lower Those Sails
Some new data has come in and we don’t like it one bit so it’s time we batten down the hatches, lower the sails and drift in the open sea.…
Key Risks Next 24 Months
Yesterday we wrote about Financial Planning for Next 24 months and today we wanted to cover some of the key risks US markets may encounter over the next 24 months…