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July 2012
July 27, 2012 04:30 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review There’s been a lot happening in the markets and economy, and more will happen the rest of the summer. This fall will be especially eventful with elections, more deadlines in Europe, and the need for legislation to avoid the “fiscal cliff” in the U.S. […]
June 2012
June 29, 2012 04:30 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review European leaders delivered a pleasant surprise to the financial world by agreeing to a couple of things at their latest summit. But don’t get too excited by the developments. Afterwards the leaders didn’t seem to agree on what they’d done, and the developments still […]
May 2012
May 25, 2012 04:45 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review These weekly messages don’t often draw attention to a lot of economic data from outside the U.S. But this week was a major one for global economic data. The first conclusion from the data is that Europe continues to deteriorate. We already knew that […]
April 2012
April 27, 2012 04:20 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review Big decisions soon need to be made by policymakers and investors. As I’ve said the last few weeks, a wave of economic and market forces are coming together and forming a critical mass that’s creating a lot of stress on the system. It’s not […]
March 2012
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February 2012
February 25, 2012 04:50 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review The big news this week came largely from overseas. One action that didn’t receive enough attention was from China. It decided to engage in another major round of its version of quantitative easing. That shows that China’s economy is slowing more than many observers […]
January 2012
January 27, 2012 01:30 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review Central banks dominated the news this week with significant changes at the Federal Reserve. The Fed and the European Central Bank have had a stop-and-go money creation policy since the financial crisis accelerated in 2008. That appears to be in the past. This year […]
December 2011
December 23, 2011 01:30 p.m. Your Retirement Finance Week in Review I wish all of you a good holiday and happy New Year. Unless something significant happens in the next week, I’ll be taking a break next week and will send the next e-mail after the first week of January. Thanks to all of you […]
