Arete Wealth Strategists Blog

The string continues. The U.S. markets managed to eke out a sixth consecutive quarterly gain in the third quarter of the year, although...

Will Social Security Go Bust? You may have read that the Social Security Trust Fund is due to be depleted in 2033, a year earlier than...

Government-Approved Inter-Family Loan Rates Logic might tell you that any loans you make to family members would be a personal matter,...

The finance magazines and websites tell us “10 Dividend Growth Stocks You Can Count On” (Kiplinger), or “20 Dividend Growth Stocks...

Default in China? It’s only getting sporadic press coverage, but a lot of fixed income insiders are talking about the possible default of...

The news media, in its coverage of the Congressional debate over raising the debt ceiling, has alarmed its readers and viewers with terms...

There’s a robust debate in investing circles about whether bitcoin—or other so-called ‘cryptocurrencies’—are actual investments. But...

There is absolutely no question that, from a historical standpoint, yields on U.S. government bonds are terrible. 10-year Treasuries that...

If the Biden Administration has its way, taxes will go up for persons earning more than $452,700, and married couples filing jointly who...

Despite the alarmist articles you might be reading in the press, most people won’t be affected very much, if at all, from the tax...

It isn’t getting much attention in the press, but the Chinese government has been quietly rolling out a state-backed cryptocurrency,...

You probably know that the U.S. stock market has been delivering the highest returns among all developed nations, not just in the last...

Inflation is in the news again, thanks to a recent jump in the Consumer Price Index. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has calculated that...

Arguably the wildest consequence of the recent pandemic is the remarkable price boom in the U.S. housing market—which, some might...

The U.S. investment markets continued to defy gravity in the second quarter of the year, closing out the month of June—and the first half...

In the last few trading days, investors and traders were reminded once again that markets go down—sometimes with a lurch. The most...

On April 28, 2021, the White House released a fact sheet for President Biden's American Families Plan (AFP), which proposes about $1...

We are definitely living in strange times, with a year of pandemic, microscopically low interest rates, a soaring stock market and...

Someday, maybe before long, it will become normal again to get on a plane, and the more daring of us might even decide to travel outside...

There’s a lot to unpack in the newly-passed, newly-signed American Rescue Plan bill, beyond the fact that the government is once again...