Author Archives: Michael Foley

The Wall Street chickens are coming home to roost. What do I mean? The stock market is bound for a hard landing after flying high for the past two years – fueled by stimulus checks. Even as we’re just now starting to deal with the effects of inflation, investors will start to suffer the ramifications […]

The system is rigged against the small retail investor, and there’s little anyone can do about it. There are too many players getting their palms greased (i.e., Wall Street brokers, market makers, politicians, and even the exchanges) for any hope of real change materializing to help the little guy. In the meantime, the gravy train […]

Do you have crash insurance? I am not referring to car insurance; I am talking about portfolio insurance for when the stock market crashes. You’re probably wondering how to buy crash insurance. You can’t purchase crash insurance, but there are concrete measures you can take to strengthen and protect your portfolio. If you could predict […]

We’ve all been guilty of this in one situation or another – letting our emotions take over and making decisions we would later regret. There’s something inside all of us where – in certain situations – we let emotions and behavioral tendencies take over and put common sense and judgment in the back seat. ​​In […]

The average investor doesn’t react well to uncertainty, and there is a lot of uncertainty going on in the world right now. Questions like these are keeping investors up at night: Is Ukraine going to fall to Russia? Will the price of gas continue to skyrocket? How will company bottom lines respond to a loss […]

As the Russian invasion of Ukraine unfolded this week, the markets took a nosedive, with oil prices surging on fears of supply constraints. Bitcoin prices also reacted negatively. Many wonder why events halfway around the world have on stock prices or even Bitcoin prices, but the reality is the U.S. markets are intertwined with the […]

The latest inflation numbers are out, and they are worse than expected. After record-setting increases in November and December, annual inflation hit 7.5% in January, higher than anticipated and highest since 1982. While the markets tumble on inflation fears and now fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, not all investors are nervous. ​​There’s a […]

Housing prices are sky high, and the housing shortage and unprecedented demand are the major culprits. ​​According to an article on usatoday.com, there are roughly 140 million homes in the United States, but that falls far short of demand, according to a recent report by Realtor.com. There’s such an imbalance in the supply of homes and the […]