Good friend and bond expert, Chuck Butler recently mentioned: “And someone somewhere, somehow is buying the 10-year Treasury, and the yield on the bond is slipping again, with it trading with 3.73% yield this morning.” MSNBC provides a graph of yields leading up to Thanksgiving week: Yields were at a high of around 4.2% and closed out the week at […]
» Read moreSubscriber John H. is Canadian. He regularly posts inspirational messages on a tree stump which is much appreciated in his neighborhood. It should resonate everywhere! I was pleased he gave me permission to share it. (I cropped off his last name to protect his privacy.) Happy Thanksgiving to All. May You Take-a-Moment to do one or more of the […]
» Read moreI dislike feeling rushed to meet a deadline. When I started Miller On The Money, I promised myself I would write a couple weeks in advance to avoid the deadline pressure, I wanted this to be a fun adventure. I’m writing this just before the election. I can’t wait for it to be over with, I’m fed up with the […]
» Read moreWho wouldn’t want FREE money? Politicians love it and citizens gladly accept it. Stimmy checks?? The Government Accounting Office touts, “The federal government made direct payments to individuals totaling $931billion.” That does not include student loan forgiveness or other government handouts. Now the states are getting into the act. Yahoo supplies the current scorecard, “These twenty states are sending out […]
» Read more“I told my dad he was dumb, turned out he was dumb like a fox!” That comment came from a friend in the bond department of a large brokerage firm. We were discussing buying bonds, CDs and interest rates. He was fresh out of college when Paul Volcker started raising interest rates to double digits. With extraordinarily high-interest rates, his […]
» Read moreWhat is money? Baby boomers worry about retirement, workers never seem to have enough while politicians spend other people’s money recklessly to buy votes. Richard Maybury writes a terrific publication which I highly recommend. His recent issue grabbed my attention: (Emphasis mine) “Ever since President Nixon bamboozled the whole world by sabotaging the gold standard in 1971, there has been […]
» Read moreI was nervous and didn’t want to let on. I’d been dating Jo for several months and things were going well. I felt very comfortable with her parents and daughter Holly. This was going to be different. We were driving from Florida to her hometown, New Harmony, Indiana, a small farming community with around 800 residents. There were 16 people […]
» Read moreFed Chairman Powell tried to convince the public inflation was “transitory”. Eventually, he could no longer ignore reality. The Fed raised interest rates several times and vows to continue to do so, until inflation is stabilized at 2%. As expected, mortgage rates are skyrocketing, the real estate market is tumbling, along with the stock and bond markets. The Party’s Over! […]
» Read moreThe Federal Reserve raised interest rates another 3/4% and promises more increases until inflation is under control. Yahoo Finance reports: “Jerome Powell just warned that the US housing market needs a ‘difficult correction’ so that folks can afford homes again: “Higher interest rates translate to bigger mortgage payments – not good news for the housing market. But cooling down housing […]
» Read moreLast week we discussed the consequences of continued high inflation. It will bring economic devastation, the dollar would lose its status as the world currency, the destruction of the middle class, and likely another Great Depression. Chuck Butler outlined what happens if the Fed flinches and doesn’t do what needs to be done – quickly: “Soon after the Fed Heads […]
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