Young's World Money Forecast

My charts (the Fed’s EKG) on high powered money and M2 growth point clearly to undisciplined chaos at the Fed. Do you see any instance of such chaos in preceding decades? No! Indeed, payday will arrive. The table indicating my own program of gold buying gives you a look at one of a number of moves I made last spring to balance myself for the inevitable comeuppance. At our family investment counsel firm, we emphasize ongoing strategy discussion, featuring new issue corporate bonds, dividend-paying Swiss franc denominated stocks, and currency and especially high US dividend-paying blue chips. Our laser-like concentration is on companies that have increased their dividend for … [Read More...]

Today we have a situation where the Fed has forced individual investors with life-time savings to subsidize corporate buybacks, acquisitions, and Wall Street banking industry borrowing and speculating. It’s what I call de facto robbing and stealing. In reality, the Fed is nothing more than a private club to favor corporate and banking elites. When the Federal Reserve was first established in 1913, Congress directed it to “furnish an elastic currency, to afford means of rediscounting commercial paper” and to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the U.S. The Fed’s duties should have been left there. But no … On 27 October 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed into law the … [Read More...]

The Fed has created a disastrous asset bubble that will extend for years. Read my series on Ron Paul to gain the full flavor for what is transpiring. I devoted a large section of my 1987 book to inflation, gold, and Switzerland. Through the decades, I have been a big investor in both Swiss assets and gold. In the month of August, 100% of my personal investing will be in Swiss Franc-denominated assets. Click here to view my Swiss chart pack. The Swiss Way I have written in the past of the Swiss Confederation and its weak central government form (the presidency is a ceremonial office and rotates). The office has no powers above the other six members of the Swiss Federal Council. The … [Read More...]

Back then I offered subscribers to my investment strategy report a ten-point investment guide for the long term. The basic plan is today, thirty years later, pretty much unchanged. Make capital preservation your number one target Make dividends the cornerstone of your core equity portfolio Never forget the power of compound interest Make equities, not bonds, your core holdings. When general market conditions are horrible, and most folks are selling, aggressively buy your dividend stocks Use automatic withdrawal programs for retirement income Don’t trade in and out Remember the words full faith and credit. Never invest based on predictions. Invest based on relative value … [Read More...]

Due to a convergence in timing, I was able to make by far the biggest commitment to the stock market in my life during late March and into the second quarter of 2020. On 31 March 2020, I posted My Three Week-Long Investing Program. It led off, “I am ramping it up over the month of April and into May." As reported 30 June in the WSJ, U.S stocks finished their best quarter in 20 years. I also posted the exact areas I was investing in and why. No way I could have expected such quick and massive returns. Given that Joe Biden is apparently attempting to put a quick end to it all by proclaiming, “we have 120 million dead,” I suppose I should not get too comfortable. OK, now what? With Joe … [Read More...]

It’s time for a change in pace. Since the end of March, the Dow has exploded from about 18,500 to over 25,000 as June nears an end. During this period, I steadily added to my equities position as well as to my individual bond positions. I also added to three fund positions (nearly 50% fixed) that I have owned for decades (not index funds) as well as to smaller positions in gold and the Swiss Franc. In the coming quarter, I plan to increase my focus on fixed income. My four biggest concerns today are (1) the Fed’s balance sheet and (2) the historically low level of U.S. government bond yields, both of which are unprecedented. (3) Creeping Marxism in America and (4) China. … [Read More...]

Your investing future does not have to be relegated to a public transportation type of experience. You have a choice. And you can go in first class comfort or, instead, take a seat in the back of the bus. Here’s what I mean. To start, don’t spring for yesterday’s investments – stock index funds or most equities centric funds. Don’t settle for government bonds that pay virtually nothing today, or for casino-like big S&P 500 stocks that pay no dividends but often sell for criminal market cap-to-sales ratios. By now you undoubtedly realize that robo-advisors, whatever they are, offer zero value.  “Advisors” manning the phone desks at massive fund groups are often kids about your … [Read More...]

Debbie and I have traveled up the East Coast countless times over the last many decades. On every trip, we take inventory of the health of America's small-town Main Streets, pedestrian activity in towns, and truck activity on the highways, among many other inference reading signals. Last Friday we were traveling again. That day, news dropped of the record-setting job gains in May. The stock market soared, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing up 829.16 points. While liberal economists like Paul Krugman wrote the report off as a conspiracy theory, the evidence of America's jobs resurgence was right in front of Debbie and me. As we drove on the highway, we witnessed far more truck … [Read More...]