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Financial resilience requires conscious steps to break from the herd

The Wall Street Journal runs this week with a detailed expose on the crisis of insufficient savings and income among Baby Boomers.  This problem will be an enduring international preoccupation from here, as older folks battle young folks and other … Continue reading →

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New Study: carbon bubble burst coming, ready or not

As OPEC ministers agreed to increase oil production again last week, a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change this month, shows that plunging renewable energy prices and rapidly increasing investment in low-carbon technologies could leave fossil fuel … Continue reading →

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Capital hell unfolding for yield-reaching investors (again)

As the safest deposit and bond yields fell since the 2008 recession, people who could not afford/did not want capital losses migrated–willfully blind/desperate/greedily–into yield-reaching harm’s way.  One popular area has been ‘syndicated mortgages’ where borrowers find private lenders to loan … Continue reading →

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