Commentary The new year is less than a month old, and economic challenges are already piling up for Beijing. It’s a pivotal year for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which is expected to announce a new slate of leadership (besides Xi Jinping) later this year. How well (or poorly) the Party handles the country’s economy…
CCP Faces Biggest Economic Challenges in Years
January 13, 2022
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Is It Time To Sell Apple After Stock Pulls Back From All-Time Highs?
Apple Inc. briefly traded at all-time highs to start the year before pulling back with the overall markets. Having bounced off the lows over the past two days, is it time to head for the exits? A lot of growth and technology stocks are still trading “at valuations that don’t make sense for their growth prospects,” Gilman…
Stock Wars: Coca-Cola vs. PepsiCo
Benzinga’s weekly Stock Wars matches up two leaders in a major industry sector with the goal of determining which company is the better investment. This week, the duel is between two powerhouse rivals in the beverage space: Coca-Cola Co and PepsiCo, Inc. The Case For Coca-Cola This company traces its roots to John Stith Pemberton, a…
Why Inflation is a Threat to Your Portfolio and Your Retirement
January 13, 2022
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Commentary Since the second half of 2021, the economic and finance world has been focused on inflation numbers that are both high and increasing. This is the first in a series where we’ll focus on what higher inflation means to you, how and why it’s being mismeasured, and what steps you can take to protect…
Sinking an Entire Industry
Commentary I like to think of myself as an optimist. My glass is always half full. (Naturally, with a drop or two of healthy skepticism built in.) But optimistic nonetheless. That optimism generally applies to my view of the markets as well. In fact, the worse the news, the more optimistic I tend to be….
Goldman Declares US Economy Dead
Commentary “Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs economists lowered their forecasts for U.S. economic growth in 2022 after Mr. Manchin’s comments regarding the president’s social-spending bill. Goldman wrote in a Sunday note that the bill’s apparent demise ‘has negative implications for near-term consumption.’ They cited the likely end of the expanded child tax credit, which has helped prop…
Biden’s Green Energy
Commentary Kabuki theater is presentational, not representational. Audience members aren’t supposed to suspend disbelief, as with most Western theatrical formats, and immerse themselves in the story. Instead, Kabuki is all about staging, costumes, makeup, vocal intonations, and the actors’ well-practiced facial contortions. Aficionados know the stories; they’ve seen them dozens of times. When I saw…
Answering the Scariest Question of a Job Interview
“So, what is your desired salary?” This is a question that can make any job candidate’s stomach drop, whether they’re reading it on an application or hearing it from an interviewer. You don’t want to give a lowball answer, but you also don’t want to seem like you have unrealistic expectations. Before you can give…
The Student Loan (Pandemic) Payment Pause Is Coming to an End
Just in case you’ve forgotten, there’s a student loan crisis in America. The amount owed in the United States is more than $1.5 trillion dollars (Yes, that’s with a T)! There hasn’t been a lot of attention given to that figure during 2020 and 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with good reason. In March…
The ‘Sticky’ Inflation Ahead for 2022
Commentary As we are closing out 2021, the most significant economic development of the year is the jump in producer and consumer prices. As of last month, the rise of the latter year over year came in at 6.8 percent; the highest running 12-month tally in some four decades. What is nearly as remarkable (so…
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