How the stock market behaves after a Fed pivot Last week’s 0.50% rate cut by the Federal Reserve signals the start of falling interest rates for months to come. Usually lower rates represent a good sign for the stock market. But because the US economy is slowing down, we are probably witnessing a top forming in the S&P… Read More »
How negative real rates distort everything Normally a mortgage is a liability. And bonds are a low risk, low return asset. However when real interest rates are negative you can throw these conventional concepts out the window. The graph below shows the difference between a government bond yield and inflation (CPI.) The economy experiences negative real rates when… Read More »
Learning from my past mistakes As a peer to peer investor, when no one else is around I would find myself a loan. 😀 I’ve been investing with Lending Loop (LL) for over 3 years now. My first year in 2017 ended with a 10% return net of expenses. Then last year I made 11%. But in the… Read More »
The Canadian federal election is coming up soon. And after that the U.S. presidential race will be in full swing for the 2020 election. Will the incumbent Donald Trump stay for another 4 years? It’s hard to make that call at this point. But perhaps there are some investment opportunities we can look at in the meantime. Unfortunately… Read More »
Lending Loop Update I’ve been investing with Lending Loop for over 2 years now. My first year in 2017 was better than expected, ending with a 10% return net of expenses. I was only expecting an 8% return. In today’s post I’ll dive into my 2018 performance with Lending Loop and also explain how the site has changed… Read More »
Short Term VS Long Term Bond Funds Earlier this year I put together a list of high quality bond funds for readers to check out. There was a lot of good feedback, but some people questioned why I didn’t include any short term bond funds in my list. More recently reader Carla also asked about my indifference to them.… Read More »