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When 2020 started, a couple of market participants –– from your typical retail financiers to institutional funds and bond market financial savants –– saw interest rates returning to all-time lows. Not 4 months later, rates of interest weren’t simply low, they were back at absolutely no. In March, the Federal …

While investors have withstood stomach-jolting ups and downs because the coronavirus pandemic struck, one of the world’s oldest products has been on a constant increase: gold. The cost of gold broke an all-time record earlier this week, trading simply shy of $2,000 per ounce. Gold surpassed all significant asset classes …

Americans are notoriously bad at conserving money. Not simply in the traditional sense, for the big stuff, we desire, like a car, college, a home, and retirement. But likewise, for the little bumps and hiccups, life throws in our way– the broken bones and cars and truck repairs, braces for …