3 January, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Retirement Investing 2016: 3 Stocks to Put on Your Radar
Retirement Investing 2016: 3 Stocks to Put on Your Radar
These three REITs could give your retirement portfolio the growth and income it needs.
3 January, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Fed’s Fischer: Hikes could be used to fight excessively high asset prices
Fed’s Fischer: Hikes could be used to fight excessively high asset prices
Highlights from a speech from the Fed’s Fischer Jan 3, 2016 in San Francisco
– No comments on the current outlook
– Warns against raising inflation target
The first comment stands out but he’s saying it in a more theoretical sense than as a signal.
3 January, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Gail Tverberg: Something Has Got To Break
Gail Tverberg: Something Has Got To Break
Actuary Gail Tverberg explains the tight correlation between the rates of GDP growth and growth in energy supply. For decades, energy has been becoming more costly to obtain, and instead of accepting lower GDP growth, we have been using debt to fund further energy exploration and extraction.
3 January, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Fed’s new rate-hike tools passed key test, Fischer says
Fed’s new rate-hike tools passed key test, Fischer says
A handful of new financial tools meant to help the Federal Reserve pull off its historic interest rate hike last month “proved effective” and eased some internal concerns, the U.S. central bank’s …
3 January, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Tesla barely hits Q4 goal amid cautious start for Model X
Tesla barely hits Q4 goal amid cautious start for Model X
Tesla Motors Inc.
3 January, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on The Best Tesla Motors, Inc. Headlines in 2015
The Best Tesla Motors, Inc. Headlines in 2015
Here are some of the headlines that defined the company’s market-beating year.
3 January, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on If Companies Are Telling The Truth, Profit Margins Are About To Collapse The Most In The 21st Century
If Companies Are Telling The Truth, Profit Margins Are About To Collapse The Most In The 21st Century
With the Fed hiking rates in order to signal a “return of confidence” to the economy, one – the most important – aspect of a recovering economy continues to be absent: rising wages.
As the following chart showing the annual growth in wages of production and non-supervisory workers (who make up 83% of the US workforce) reveals, wage growth is not only well below the Fed’s goal of 4.5%, at 1.7% it is below the Fed’s goal of 2% inflation, suggestion that on a real basis wages would be declining if the Fed had attained its 2% inflation mandate.