A closer look at the cost of living between 2000 and 2015: Looking at tuition at USC and the typical priced US home.
We keep hearing that the Fed is tepid about raising interest rates because there is no sign of inflation. In fact, they assume that wages are keeping up for most families and that is not true. Inflation is running rampant. You don’t need giant price increases to disrupt lifestyles when many of the new […]
Social Security supports 1 out of every 5 Americans: Most retirees heavily depend on Social Security for their retirement income.
It is great that people overall are living longer but adding years to your life can get costly. Retirement can be a long time. For some, retirement can last as long as their working career. With a pension people didn’t have to worry about longevity as if this was a bad thing. Yet pensions are […]
7 million college debtors have yet to make a single student loan payment in last year. The college debt bubble grows.
The student debt problem continues to spiral out of control as millions of young Americans enter the workforce only to be greeted by low paying jobs and the monthly bill for their college experience. For the most part studies show that college graduates do better than non-college graduates. Yet these studies fail to take into […]
The casino of Wall Street enters official correction territory: S&P 500 has increased on the back of a massively expanding Fed balance sheet.
The casino effect of Wall Street is being played out in full. The Fed balance sheet recently stopped growing at an astounding $4.5 trillion. This is the first time in nearly three years that the balance sheet has slowed down in large part for the oncoming rate hikes that seem to never materialize. The market […]