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Are Bonds Safe During a Recession or Market Crash?

Darrow Wealth Management

Swings in the financial markets also highlight the benefitsand limitationsof diversification. During times of economic, financial, and political uncertainty, investors often wonder where to invest or what changes to make to their portfolio. The chart below shows what happened to fixed income (bonds) in 2008.

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Nouriel Roubini Enters The ETF Fray

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

From the fund page : the goal is seeking stable returns across a variety of economic and financial market conditions, consistent with the preservation of capital. And since the other funds came along, RYMFX has shown to not be such a great representation of the strategy even though it helped in 2008.

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Turn Off TV – Emperor Media Has No Clothes!

Investing Caffeine

Source: NewsWeek Financial Crisis Depression 2.0 2008) In October 2008, the Time magazine cover encapsulated the zeitgeist of the period with a 1929 photo that included a line of desperate people waiting for food donations at a soup kitchen.

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Past Elections Status Quo Means No Need for Woe

Investing Caffeine

Source : Yardeni Research (Yardeni.com) More recently, over the last 26 years, the stock market has been up significantly under each president, regardless of political party.

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No Market Misgiving on This Thanksgiving

Investing Caffeine

As you can see from the chart below , the stock market is priced at levels not seen since 2001 and valuations are roughly double what they were at the lows of the 2008 Financial Crisis.

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Mideast War an Investor Bore as Markets Soar

Investing Caffeine

would bomb key nuclear sites in Iran, would you have guessed that Middle East stability would follow—and that global financial markets would soar to record highs? While geopolitical dynamics remain fluid, markets shrugged off the chaos. If I told you at the beginning of the year that the U.S.

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Changing world order and what you should do?

Truemind Capital

The world order started changing in 2008 when significant quantitative easing (QE) – money printing and near-zero interest rates, was announced by major central banks led by the US Fed during the subprime crisis. Any attempts to reduce quantitative easing lead to stock market tantrums and economic slowdown.