Financial Sense

By Paul Horn CFP By Paul Horn CFP – A trust at times may be the only way to ensure your wishes are carried out beyond the grave. It remains one of the simplest and best ways to help protect you while living and protect your heirs after you pass. …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Mises Institute By Mises Institute – The US manufacturing sector has had a rich history, one that has lifted millions of Americans into the middle-class, making the Land of the Free the most envied nation in the world. You clock in your eight to 10 hours a day… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Global Risk Insights By Global Risk Insights – Although China has backpedaled on proposed tariffs on US crude imports, the move is indicative of its need to diversify sources and steps may now be taken to enable China to play the oil card in the future – including imports from Iran despite sanctions and

By FS Staff By FS Staff – Copper, European banks, and emerging markets all entered into bear market territory last week and the trillion dollar question strategists are asking is whether US markets are likely to get pulled down as well… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Callum Thomas By FS Staff – Something has been happening in the global economy this year – and I say *this year* for good reason. Both the developed and emerging market composite manufacturing PMIs peaked in December last year, and have both seen an almost consistent… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Matthew Kerkhoff By Matthew Kerkhoff – We’re entering a seasonally strong period of the year with modest valuation levels and a strong economy. If you add in a tailwind from reduced trade friction, we could be in for a strong few months. Nowhere is this more evident than… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Kurt Kallaus By Kurt Kallaus – Today’s near record low unemployment should support a robust economic expansion but has confounded economists expecting worrisome inflation. The inflation to unemployment sensitivity was strong in the 1960s and 1970s… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Global Risk Insights Global Risk Insights – U.S. cyber policy is shedding the overly-careful approach favored during the Obam- era, becoming more activist and increasingly likely to reach into foreign networks for the sake of defense. While this carries an increased risk… …read more From:: Financial Sense

FS Staff – FS Insider recently interviewed Dinny McMahon to discuss his must-read book, China’s Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans, and the End of the Chinese Miracle. Dinny provides a rich and in-depth account of the problems facing China… …read more From:: Financial Sense

By Matthew Kerkhoff By Matthew Kerkhoff – With each passing day it looks increasingly likely that the February swoon was simply a run-of-the-mill correction, as opposed to the beginning of a full-fledged bear market. But that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods just yet… …read more From:: Financial Sense