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Accounting for the Wrong Test Stress Testing, Statistical Data, Confidence and Monitoring And now another shoe drops. First Republic Bank no longer inspires confidence. So

The End of Savings Safety and the Beginning of Economic Understanding Includes a Fun Assignment   When it comes to investing your hard-earned money for

Suddenly Safety Money is Risky   Common sense isn’t always so easy to come by, and when it comes to national spending, we often must

A Study of Two Eds and Their Varied Prediction of the Economic Cycle With an introductory paragraph on The Current War to Halt Inflation  

Hedging in a Changing World The world is witnessing a great power conflict between the United States and China. The winner of the conflict, especially

A Bit of Christmas Hope Based Upon Fundamental Evidence and Cyclicality   The consensus view on Wall Street is that the Fed may raise interest

News From the Front Lines of Investment Decision Making By Vaughn Woods, CFP, MBA   By mid-2022, bond sellers outstripped bond buyers 62% to 38%.

Group Think By Vaughn Woods, CFP, MBA A new bull market is often seen as a sign of economic recovery and renewed confidence. And there

The Recent Past Remember the great recession of 2008? Well, after almost a decade of supporting the securities markets (stocks and bonds) with independent monetary

Sovereign Debt Levels, The World Bank, Food, Inflation, Recession and Confidence By Vaughn Woods, CFP, MBA   According to David Malpass, President of the World

September Newsletter   Much of what I write about has to do with economic cycles…for a reason. It affects everyone sooner or later and markets

Cloud Computing Industry   In 1956, then U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon, under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, told Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev that the