When it comes to getting into financial trouble and going bankrupt, many people think the reason is poor finances. While this does play a role, there are other reasons why people go bankrupt. In fact, in some cases, the cause of bankruptcy is out of the control of the person involved. Someone who is doing the right things financially and saving money can still find themselves staring in the face of filing for bankruptcy so what are the major reasons why people go bankrupt and what can you do to protect yourself? In this post, I’ll answer these questions. Let’s get started!

The qualitative relationship between the growth in the Total Money Supply, credit crises, and recessions has been remarkably clear since 1978 and, as such, the current suppression of the Total Money Supply growth rate, if it is sustained for the rest of the year, portends another credit crisis and housing bust, followed by an economic recession for the U.S. economy.

Whenever some financial “pundit” says that the best way to get into a stock is by averaging down, we sometimes cringe. Why? Because, at best, you’ll be getting into a stock at a lower average price...but more importantly, you can be getting into a stock that’s poised to sink much, much lower and that’s a risk no one wants to take.

...Volatility has now returned to the stock market after a hibernation of several years...[and such] an explosion of volatility is indicative of a change of trend. The recent signals transmitted by this market have been classic and have been telling us that we have entered the final topping process of this extended and stretched economic cycle.

History tells us we should expect higher stock prices in the next quarter, mid-year, and by the end of 2018. The trillion-dollar question is, “When will this all end?”

Knowing how to properly value a stock is probably the most important skill for a value investor to develop and over the last fifty years one of the most popular methods to discover the fair price of a stock has been the Benjamin Graham formula.

Sentiment surveys clearly show how bears have given up, and neutrals have capitulated and this particular trend may have room to run further.

Is the bull market about to come to an end? If last year ends up being the top of this bull market, what does history say could happen to stocks this year?

A lot of people think cryptos are in a big bubble. They’re some of the most volatile asset markets have ever seen and, with so many different types of cryptos out there, it can be hard to know how much of your portfolio you should allocate to any one of them so today, I’m clearing up the confusion.

We can expect bitcoin to begin to trade along other typical stock market patterns, like seasonality, next year, and this chart will be one I use to time any investments into it.