How fast does money travel through a system? This is the root question in calculating the Velocity of Money. You might ask, “Why is this important?” well, the answer is simple, if the velocity of YOUR money is faster than that of the economy at large you can either win big, or lose big.
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What exactly is inflation? Is deflation even really possible? What the heck is Stagflation? In this episode we talk about the possibilities facing our country and what they may mean to all of us.
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What type of Income tax would you like to pay? Lets take a look at some of the basic tax plans thet get tossed about and their potential implications as we enter yet another election year and changes are sure to be blowing in the wind.
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The Federal Reserve Bank produces a series of numbers every month to define the amount of money in circulation. One set of numbers however does not give us the complete picture, for that we need three, M1, M2 and M3. Each calculation divuldges a larger segment of the overall money supply. Find out what they […]
The World Trade Organization is in charge of regulating trade and tariffs on a worldwide basis. As the replacement for the earlier General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) it regulates the economies of the world. Unlike the earlier GATT agreement however it is very much focused on Free Trade and the increased power of […]
If you were to listen to your nightly business newscast, you would think that the whole world was invested in derivatives. What exactly are they and how do they work? The short answer is that derivatives are contracts that are bought and sold against an item that has a concrete known value, but is not […]
We get a lot of questions around here asking us to define the terms heard on various news reports and business shows. This is certainly one of the more common requests, What is a Hedge Fund? Simply stated, a hedge fund is no more than an investment vehicle that is designed to be highly risky, […]
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