Can you really attract wealth just by changing your thoughts, as promised by self-help gurus everywhere? Though it seems that those self-proclaimed experts are attracting their own wealth just by persuading you that it’s true so you’ll buy their courses and books,...
The Federal Reserve Faces Critics At Home and Abroad
The Federal Reserve’s brand new leader has a lot on her plate. As the nation’s central bank takes the first steps toward tapering down its massive stimulus plan, it faces not just criticism from emerging markets around the globe but also from financial experts at...
AMA 76 – Open The Books with Adam Andrzejewski
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Boreas and Friends Take a Toll on the Economy
Boreas, Cleon, Electra . . . the newly named winter storms marched across the northeastern US earlier this winter in quick succession, leaving behind frigid air, paralyzed cities, and economic consequences that proved costly for some, lucrative for others. And the...
Emerging Markets Worry About Stimulus Fallout
The Federal Reserve may be optimistic about the outcomes of its decision to taper down the ongoing bond buying stimulus program, but the rest of the world isn’t so sure. Among issues on the table at an upcoming meeting of the world’s money policymakers in Sydney are...
Stress Can Derail Financial Success
Medical professionals have been saying for years that stress can take years off your life. For a number of financial professionals, that may literally be true, as a string of suicides and other mysterious deaths rock the international banking community. The world of...
Banks Settle Up In Insurance Rate Fixing Suits
In the seemingly never ending saga of legal actions against the nation’s big banks – and sometimes their foreign counterparts as well – the action usually plays out on a government stage of the highest level, with lawsuits brought by state officials or the Justice...
Is Insurance an “Investment?”
Insurance policies may protect assets in the event of a catastrophe, but are they — as insurance companies would have it – a real investment? A new Forbes business report reveals that while insurers sell policies as sound investments in the future, they’re actually...
Can The World Have Too Many Currencies?
While the Bitcoin continues to grab headlines for reasons good and bad, other digital currencies are quietly staking their own claim in the international money markets. As it’s becoming clear that virtually anybody can put a digital money system in place, economists...
AMA 75 – “The Great Withdrawal” with Lowell Ponte
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