The High Cost of High Mortgage Rates As the brewing battle between President Trump and the FED intensifies, US homeowners face some anguish regarding mortgages and homeownership. With FED continuously creating excuses for keeping rates high with little evidence to support their decision, the housing market has suffered. Homeowners with mortgages can’t sell due to…
US Inflation Forecast 2025 & Next 5 Years As President Trump readies for his Presidential inauguration in one week, is there a problem lurking that could undermine his agenda for reviving America? Americans are enjoying a strong economy, great jobs market, and many are looking forward to the next 5 years as a golden era…
Stock Market Forecast for the Next 6 Months The six-month forecast period puts us past the 3 month spring period through to June where the economy might be picking up significant speed. Forecasts for the Dow Jones average for any time in the coming year are very scarce. It seems bank and investment company analysts…
The 2025 Revival of Small Business Travel agencies, retail shops, SaaS software startups, and real estate brokers are small businesses and they haven’t been represented well in the last 4 years. And small business provides most of GDP and income/jobs for most Americans. They employ 61 million people or 45.9% of the entire U.S. workforce…
The US Needs Lower Interest Rates Now The current situation for the economy and the stock market is one of worry or fear over the US FED damaging the economy and ruining current investments and future business investment. The FED was late reacting to inflation which the US government created. Now it’s overshooting with smiles…
Much Better Home Sales Season Ahead for Realtors The US Fed is likely to reduce the central lending rate slightly in July. What goes up must come down, the way it’s done after every recession the FED has launched. The rate decline will be minimal, however it still represents a signal of a trend and…
6 Month Forecast for the Economy The outlook for the next six months for the stock market and the economy will require some patience as the FED attempts to dissipate the spending excess of the US government. Inflation may not go away any time soon as demand from consumers persists and the job market stays…
Natural Gas Futures Prices Smart investors pick the best stocks but they also know to invest in a dip. Right now, one investible commodity is in a dip period. It is the last? Everyone might think the dip stocks or commodities are all gone, yet natural gas remains at very low price levels. For investors…
Why a US Recession Won’t be in the Cards for 2024 The equity markets took a dive Wednesday on expectations of bad news. Yes, not on bad news, but the expectation of bad news. At least someone’s expectation. So much for the technical analysis everyone’s publishing right now. There seems to be a little conspiracy…
Are Home Prices About to Rocket? Everyone is waiting for interest rates to fall. That’s because those rates are what’s stopping the housing market specifically. High rates harm a lot of industries, but real estate is worst hit. It will recover quickly when rates go down. It’s those unwelcome interest rates that are preventing most…
The Rolling Question of a Housing Market Downturn Another year has passed, with buyers and sellers asking whether the housing market could crash? Would that be a good event for buyers, the homeless, and as a launch pad for a 2024 housing market resurgence? There are economists and housing market experts who extoll the…
When Will the Money Markets Collapse? In the wake of US banking turmoil, investors are nervous about where to put their vast amounts of pandemic stimulus money. That risk and volatility has pushed trillions out of banks and into Mega Cap equities and money market funds. Funds in money markets are seemingly more stable with…
Market Experts Give their Predictions If you’re relying on predictions and forecasts, or just guidance from fund managers, investment advisors, and economists, we have the opinions of a few right here. Would investment and fund managers speak honestly if it affected the value of their funds and caused investors to sell their shares? Just something…
Top Stock Market Crash Indicators If you’re smart investor and you’re really concerned about the value of your investment (your hard earnings), then you must be aware of what could ruin that investment. You might have uneasy feeling that this constant inflating of the stock market could end in a crash. More people are asking,…