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This post The Fed Has Robbed the Future appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Has the future finally arrived? The Federal Reserve intervened massively to cage the menace of depression after the 2008 financial crisis. Quantitative easing, zero interest rates and the rest of the central banker’s emergency kit came to bear. The heroics “worked.” The […]

This post How to Join the Centenarian Club appeared first on Daily Reckoning. The average life expectancy in industrial and developing countries for those born in 2017 is 82 years for females and 76 years for males. Here in the U.S., it’s about 78 overall. Yet according to a survey conducted by UBS Wealth Management,

This post Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World appeared first on Daily Reckoning. The word “collusion” has come to be associated with Russia, Trump and the U.S. election. But my new book, Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World, is about something entirely different and much more global: The collusion (or coordination) that the

This post Social Security Questions Answered appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Over the years, I’ve gotten A LOT of questions about Social Security. After all, the program is essentially an ongoing series of tax hikes, expansions, tweaks, benefit reductions, and other “fixes” that amount to a labyrinth of rules, regulations, and complicated decision trees. Some

This post Live From Nebraska: 5 Can’t-Miss Warren Buffett Insights appeared first on Daily Reckoning. This weekend I traveled to Omaha, Nebraska for Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting. The event, known as the “Woodstock of Capitalism,” hosted an estimated 40,000 investors from all over the world who traveled to hear Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger

This post Financial Collusion: A Decade After the Crisis, We’ve a Lot Yet to Learn appeared first on Daily Reckoning. I’m Nomi Prins, a friend and colleague of Nilus here to fill in for the weekend. The great American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald gets credit for my new book, Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the

This post The Coming Massive Commodity Rally appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Earlier this year Goldman Sachs had sent a report out to its high-net-worth clients indicating that it was the best time to own commodities in at least 15 years, if not decades. This view from Goldman was based on three forces coming together

This post These 7 Car Myths Are Costing You Money appeared first on Daily Reckoning. There was a point in my life when I wanted to own a red car. All my friends told me I shouldn’t. After all, red cars get more speeding tickets and cost more to insure. These two truths stopped me

This post Four market terms you need to know appeared first on Daily Reckoning. One of my big goals with the Rich Life Roadmap is helping you become a more knowledgeable investor. So today I’d like to tell you about four stock market terms that are often cited, but rarely explained properly, even by investment

This post “Money Is Gold — and Nothing Else” appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Following the Panic of 1907, John Pierpont Morgan was called to testify before Congress in 1912 on the subject of Wall Street manipulations and what was then called the “money trust” or banking monopoly of J. P. Morgan & Co. In