We knew it’s been a long time coming. We could not have expected the government to keep printing money and raising the debt ceiling without some consequence finally falling down on America. Other countries could only stomach our “IOU’s” for so long. Last Friday, the ax finally fell: the S&P downgraded America’s credit rating from [...]

Regardless of whether you have money invested in the stock market or not, the latest of our market corrections is hard to ignore. If you check newspaper headlines, the predictions are grim: Words like Recession, Depression, Economic Slowdown, and Unemployment are being thrown about at whim. Investment firms are so distraught about the market crash [...]

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