Have you ever been at the right place at the right time? In an article on coincidences, “The Hidden Power of Coincidences,” Elizabeth Bernstein writes in the WSJ on how meaningful many people find coincidences. On the other hand, many others never give “coincidences” another thought. After the “profound upheaval” (thanks to Covid), she continues, […]
Archives for October 2022
UK Pension Industry Is Looking for a Scapegoat
Your Survival Guy has long observed that the average pension manager can’t live in a two percent world. And guess what—when the going gets tough, the pension manager takes on more risk to save his job rather than being a fiduciary shepherd for his flock. Now the UK is looking for someone to blame for […]
Can Social Security COLAs Overcome Blistering Biden/Powell Inflation?
Americans living on Social Security will undoubtedly be happy to receive higher payouts after some of the largest cost of living adjustments (COLAs) seen in forty years kick in. But it’s hard to say if those COLAs will be enough to make up for raging inflation. The Federal Reserve’s decade+ of dumping money into American […]
Americans Facing Worst Core Inflation in 40 Years
The Biden-era has racked up a fair share of embarrassments, from the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle to the failure to achieve the Biden campaign’s promises on Covid, to the complete collapse of border security. But no failure has been worse than Biden’s inability to tame inflation, and his propensity to stoke it with big spending follies. […]
Inflation Pushes Yields Even Higher
New inflation reports are pushing treasury yields even higher, as the market foresees more interest rate increases from the Fed, and demands more protection from inflation. Your best investor tool is the U.S. Treasury Yield Curve. Examine it closely on my chart below. Sam Goldfarb reports on the rising rates in The Wall Street Journal: […]
DART: NASA Hits Bullseye with New Asteroid Defense Weapon
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the first planetary defense technology demonstrator, traveled ten months in space and successfully impacted and altered the path of an egg-shaped asteroid called Dimorphos. Dimorphos is roughly the size of a football field, and it orbits a parent asteroid five times larger than itself. DART, which was no bigger […]
Who’s to Blame for California’s Rising Energy Prices?
Hint: it’s not Moscow. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is considering calling a special session of the state legislature to address the state’s highest-in-the-nation gasoline prices, including a possible new tax on oil industry profits, reports The WSJ’s Christine Mai-Duc and Benoît Morenne. From Gov. Newsom: “Greed and manipulation, that’s all this is,” “All this” is […]
GO WOKE, GO BROKE: PayPal the Latest to Learn the Hard Way
Corporations just can’t seem to understand that Americans don’t want them calling balls and strikes in politics. No one needs PayPal to punish people who spread “misinformation,” yet somehow, someone in PayPal’s corner offices decided this was a brilliant idea. Of course, PayPal isn’t really interested in battling “misinformation,” it’s interested in tamping down alternative […]
The Unrivalled Power of the Unelected Fed
You have watched over the past week as the UK bond market and the pensions that rely on it have gone on a rollercoaster ride trying to maintain their solvency in the face of rapidly rising interest rates. The Bank of England, one of the world’s foremost central banks and the UK’s arbiter of monetary […]
Why Are Democrats So Eager to Put Criminals Back on the Streets?
You know from reading Your Survival Guy that Democrats have spent the last two years first encouraging and then denying any involvement in a crime wave that has swept the nation’s cities, bringing back memories of the dark days of the ’80s. One of the policies that have been so detrimental to the safety of […]
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