Monthly Archives: February 2015

What’s (not) up with inflation?

Janet Yellen tried to sound confident yesterday that the US economy was strengthening and that the Fed would be able to exit crisis mode, and begin edging policy rates back up from (6 long years) near-zero within the next 6 … Continue reading

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Danielle on The Financial Survival Network

Danielle was a guest today on The Financial Survival Network with Kerry Lutz, talking about recent trends in the world economy and markets. You can listen to an audio clip of the segment here.  (unfortunately the connection was patchy in … Continue reading

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Bloated Canadian finance shares looking queasy

Despite all the usual consensus happy talk, selling pressure has been dominating Canadian bank shares since last June, when the price of oil began to tank in earnest. Here is a one year portrait of the finance sector ETF (XFN). … Continue reading

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