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Inversions are genuine warning signs for recessions, but I think it can take years before a recession happens.

On March 31, President Biden announced the release of up to 1 million barrels of oil a day every day for six months from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help fix the high gas prices.

Right now, oil and everything made with oil seems to be getting crazy expensive. What is more concerning is that Brent oil prices are surging again this week.

When the future of the market is uncertain, the need for diversification is strongest. Market risk, interest income risk, and inflation risk can all be mitigated by simply diversifying.

There are real risks to investments too that a wise investor must plan for and try to minimize. The three basic types of investment risk are market risk, interest income risk, and inflation risk.

Ukraine is the Kansas of Europe. They’re a huge supplier of wheat and corn. So, when their country is threatened grain prices are impacted.

Starting with Russia and Ukraine, the truth is the U.S. economy, and the overall stock market probably won’t be impacted much by the recent conflict.

With inflation going up at the highest rate since the early 1980s, the Fed is choosing to make it worse.

The 10-year yield jumped to the significant 2% mark in the last few days because of the latest inflation numbers.

The stock market hates uncertainty, and the first month of this year was ripe for uncertainty.

Due to rising inflation, McDonald’s announced that it expects their food and paper costs to almost double this year compared to what they were paying for the same things in 2021.

Economic analysts have lowered growth expectations for the first quarter of 2022.

Do you know what else happened in 1982? That was the last time we had inflation this high.

I don’t see the 2022 market repeating the 2021 market that looked great the first quarter coming out of the pandemic shutdowns of 2020.

How did a global pandemic wreak havoc on a century’s old system? Let me explain the supply chain mess in layman baseball terms.

Chairman Powell has been saying all year that inflation wasn’t going to be a problem.

We now have October’s inflation numbers, and they weren’t good. In fact, they were much worse than expected.

on November 3, the Federal Reserve announced at the end of its Open Market Committee meeting that it was going to begin hitting the brakes on the pace of the monthly amount of its bond purchases this month (quantitative easing).