Luck, Skill, and Patience – Beating the Market

In our career as investors, we will all be bombarded with people who claim to produce spectacular rates of return from stocks, metals, or property that rockets up in value. When we observe these seemingly impossible gains, it initiates a “greed” impulse within our...

Inflation Predictions for 2011

The general price level in 2010 relative to 2009 shows average price levels that are nearly flat. The reason for this trend is significant commodity price increases in 2007 and 2008 that collapsed after the global financial crisis. Much of the reason for the price...

Interest Rate Predictions

One of the principal economic leading indicators for 2011 will be the movement of 10-year treasury rates. The reason for this is because 30-year fixed rate mortgages are indexed against the 10-year treasury, and interest rate movements have a dramatic impact on the...
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