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The NASDAQ-100 is a selection of the top valued companies within the NASDAQ, ranked by market capitalization...and is heavily weighted towards the tech sector

Do you understand money? Many couldn't pass this simple finance quiz. Can you?

The debt ceiling is of course a total farce. Why? Because it has been raised 95 times since 1940 and 14 times in this century. As a result, there is now a clear disconnect between the credit expansion and the lagging gold price which will soon be rectified as gold not only catches up with the debt expansion - but overtakes it.

Withdrawing from a $1,000,000 nest egg upon retirement using the familiar 4% rule to generate a successful 30-year inflation-adjusted (3% per annum) retirement proved to be totally inadequate as per the retirement withdrawal strategy that I put forth in a previous article (1). In fact, it crashed and burned in year 25 of the 30-year plan! In fact, as I show in this article, it will only succeed if your portfolio outperforms the S&P 500 by 5% every year for 30 straight years - and what is the likelihood of that? Words: 1533

Today’s infographic comes to us from Endeavour Silver, and it outlines some key indicators that precede a coming gold-silver cycle in which exposure to hard assets may help to protect wealth.

The DAX is a German blue-chip stock index made up of the 30 largest German companies making it, essentially, the German equivalent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Do we know whether REITs will be higher six months from now? No. Do we believe that a portfolio of undervalued REITs is very attractive in a late cycle economy? Yes! Here's why.

No one knows for sure but you don’t need a PhD in economics to realize that this might not have a happy ending - or that you might want to think about a Plan B.

Economists, investors, and policymakers would do well to take seriously the predictive power of the yield curve.

Beyond wishing for interest rates to bounce back to historic highs, what can you do to help your portfolio produce income into your golden years?