Personal Finance
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What Really Happened to Silicon Valley Bank – and What It Means for You
Shah Gilani Mar 16, 2023 Newsflash: Even if Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was stress-tested by the Fed, their problems would not have been unearthed, though they were more than understood by Goldman Sachs. SVB’s problems were, in fact, used by Goldman to “help” SVB, which immediately buried the bank and grossly enriched the great vampire…
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SVB’s Collapse Can Be Your Triple-Digit Gain – Here’s How to Play It
Shah Gilani Mar 13, 2023 Of course, by now you’ve probably read a dozen stories about the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, or SVB for short. This is what you need to keep in mind: the financial sector is not out of the woods yet. Yes, even though the U.S. Government (Treasury Department, Federal Reserve…
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How to Save the Free Market from the Fed… and Get Paid Doing It
Shah Gilani Feb 17, 2023 Most people, including Wall Street investors, don’t realize that we don’t have free markets. We operate under a command economy, not unlike manifestly socialist or Communist countries, or dare I say, banana republics. Who is at the helm of the command center? The Federal Reserve System, America’s private central bank.…
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Cash Is King Again – Here’s Where to Park It for Steady Gains
Shah Gilani Feb 23, 2023 Some of you old Steve Miller fans may remember his seminal 1973 album The Joker and one of its brilliant tracks, “Your Cash Ain’t Nothin’ But Trash.” (For the rest of you who don’t know the song, check it out; you’re going to love it.) Like, I love cash now.…
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I am the Loneliest Man Alive!!!
Dear Reader, It feels quite odd, doesn’t it? A week ago, momentum turned Red. I projected that the S&P 500 was on its way to 3,900 – and that the SPY would hit 390. It didn’t happen all at once. It happened slowly. It was a burn. A real burn of lower highs and lower…
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Implied Volatility Is Getting a Lift
Our president visited Ukraine over the long weekend and Russian President, Vladimir Putin is ruffling feather as he talks of suspending his country’s participation in the nuclear arms reduction treaty with the United States. And, to kickstart the week of earnings, Walmart (WMT) shares took a tumble after its year-ahead outlook was lowered – inflation…
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A Trading Foundation to Combat Economic Hardship
Dear Reader, The market rallied close to 10% last month, and it has already given back half of the gains, so it looks like our market may very well be on its way to another rollercoaster ride this year. Despite the market looking promising early this year, officials at the World Bank have explained “the…
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Trading Perfect Stocks in a Choppy Market
Dear Reader, This morning, markets took a bit of a hit after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell appeared before the Senate to discuss interest rates and the state of the economy. In prepared testimony, Powell told Congress that interest rates are likely higher. “The latest economic data have come in stronger than expected, which suggests…
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Collect Inflation-Crushing 10%+ Yields While This Stock Appreciates
Shah Gilani Mar 06, 2023 Inflation just won’t come down, at least nowhere near the Federal Reserve’s 2% target rate – even after the Fed Funds Effective Rate has jumped from 0.08% in February 2022 to 4.57% in February 2023. That means a lot of investors are turning their attention back toward income investing as…