FLGV News and Press, Franklin Liberty U.S. Treasury Bond From 10/02/20

The dramatic move in commodities could be due to portfolio rebalancing at the end of the month, or it could be signaling that the recovery is running out of steam. Countries are doing QE to manipulate their currencies and get inflation, but their attempts to reflate their economies ar...

The reality that most small businesses close in failure underlines the risk involved in loaning money to such concerns. Still, it is difficult to deny the importance of small business in the overall economy. The Fed has played a major role in pushing inequality higher. Federal Reserve...

From time to time, Austrian economists, gold bugs, and other economists on the saner end of the spectrum warn of the inflationary dangers of modern central bank policies. In order to understand the problem, it is necessary to get clear on the basics of the discussion. During norma...

With central banks anchoring official rates at historic lows, investors are understandably concerned that government bonds won't act as an offset to equity risk the way they have in the past. But recent history suggests that low - and even negative - yields don't eliminate the buffer ...

The second quarter of 2020 saw the worst quarterly decline in economic terms since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The third quarter of 2020 is the first recovery quarter, and that recovery is extremely sharp because it is coming from such a depressed bottom. Many economists ar...

The global market is in the early recovery phase of the business cycle following the COVID-19 recession. This implies an extended period of low-inflation, low-interest-rate growth - an environment that usually favors equities over bonds. But after such a rapid rebound, an equity market pu...

I am hopeful that there won't be a major second wave of infections, but I believe there is a good possibility that there will be one. But if most countries are able to avoid wide-scale lockdowns, the negative impact to the global economy should be relatively low, in my view. The stock...

The NASDAQ Composite Index broke a three-week losing streak gaining 1.1% last week while the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average extended losses for the fourth straight week. The main contributors to the recent pullback in the markets are last week’s announcement t...

For 94 years, the "average, annual" return for large-cap stocks, which per the Ibbotson data is the S&P 500, is above 10%, and probably closer to 12%. The only return period that matched or roughly approximates the 103-year average, annual return for the S&P 500 is the decade ...

"Enormous Uncerntainty." That is how SimplyWise stated the situation in their latest "retirement confidence survey." There are several critical issues in the index which encapsulate the ongoing financial distress that existed before the pandemic, but have since markedly worsened. ...