Many people assume that rising interest rates must be a bad sign for stocks. It's not nearly that simple! Tom and Brendan discuss this on the weekly Mullooly Asset Management podcast. A recent article by Barry Ritholtz (which you can find here:...
Recently there's a been a lot of curiosity about the strong second quarter turned in by the bond market. Tom discusses two theories that may explain the bond market's second quarter. These are, of course, just theories because nobody ever discloses their personal...
In the last week, the financial media's hot topic has been interest rates. What's going on with them? Where are they going? When will the Fed begin raising rates and how will that affect markets when they do? Naturally, investors are curious about interest rates too....
If you haven't heard, bonds are risky in 2013. Tom and Brendan discuss why you should be taking caution if you are investing in bonds. Tom points out that in the past bonds have been relatively secure investments, while stocks were fairly hazardous. Right now the...
In this week's Mullooly Asset Management podcast Tom and Brendan answer the question, "Why are bonds risky?". Tom begins by pointing out that Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, and Warren Buffet have all cautioned against bonds recently. Bernanke said (of bonds), “They are...
In this week's Mullooly Asset Management video, Tom and Brendan continue to discuss the fundamentals of financial planning. This week's topic is compound interest, something that we all deal with regularly. As often as people deal with compound interest, it does go...
On this week's Mullooly Asset Management podcast Tom and Brendan continue talking about some of the fundamental building blocks of financial planning. Last week they discussed how financial planning really starts with paying yourself first. Having money saved can help...
Interest rates -- short term interest rates turned negative on Thursday November 19th. Rates have been low and look like they could stay there awhile...but who knows? In this video, we discuss the purpose of a bank, and one possible reason rates may be so low.
Taking Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers out of the commercial paper market is like taking the umpires off the field in a Little League game.
By re-inflating the value of many securities on hand at banks, this will automatically raise the capital ratios at these banks.
