Implications of Portfolio Withdrawals for Physician Investors
Obtaining Income in a Low Interest-Rate Economic Ecosystem By Jeffery S. Coons; PhD, CFP® Managing Principal-Manning & Napier Advisors, Inc The general trend of declining interest rates experienced...
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Patients Showing Doctors the Money [1999–2008] By Staff Reporters Copayment 2008 1999 $5 6% 23% $10 16% 60% $15 29% 12% $20 30% 1% Other 19% 3% Source: Kaiser/HRETHRET Survey of Employer-Sponsored...
View ArticleAre We in a Bond Market Bubble?
Beware all Physicians and Investors By Sean G. Todd, Esq., M. Tax, CFP, CPA Investors have been pouring money into bonds. The Investment Company Institute statistics show that since January 2007,...
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And, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) said … By Arthur Chalekian GEPC [Financial Consultant] U.S. job growth surpassed expectations in October. About 271,000 jobs were created across diverse...
View ArticleUpdate on the FOMC and Interest Rates
What if the Fed DOESN’T Raise Rates? By Michael A. Gayed CFA *** With odds high for the Federal Reserve’s first rate hike in nearly a decade, and seemingly everyone predicting that rising...
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By Charles Schwab What They Could Mean for You The FMOC rose interest rates today. So, what does this mean for all of us? *** *** More: Update on the FOMC and Interest Rates The World Experiments with...
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Impending IRs and … the Economy By http://www.MCOL.com *** *** Conclusion Your thoughts and comments on this ME-P are appreciated. Feel free to review our top-left column, and top-right sidebar...
View ArticleAn Interest Rate Review for Physician-Executives
Managerial Accounting By Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA Recently, several major banking institutions have addressed the problem of escalating debt upon graduating physicians, mid-life practitioners and even...
View ArticleUPDATE: Markets and Medicine
By Staff Reporters *** The Federal Reserve announced that it will stop buying bonds about three months earlier than initially planned. The Fed now plans to trim its monthly Treasury and...
View ArticleSTOCK MARKETS: Update and the Federal Reserve
By Staff Reporters *** Markets: Already through a rough day, stocks dove even lower after the Fed released the minutes from its December meeting. Tech companies continued to get clobbered as rising...
View ArticleUPDATE: IRS Interest Rates Rising, Currency Inflation and Upcoming Earning...
By Staff Reporters **** IRS: The IRS sent out a notice on February 23rd, warning taxpayers about a price hike coming in the next few months. The tax agency said that interest rates will increase for...
View ArticleUPDATE: Bitcoin, Tesla, Interest Rates, Budget Deficit, ESG Funds and the...
By Staff Reporters *** *** Guggenheim Partners Chief Investment Officer Scott Minerd said he expects Bitcoin to fall to $8,000 and that cryptocurrency has become a market of “a bunch of yahoos.”...
View ArticleUPDATE: Corona-Virus, Silver Lining for Interest Rate Hikes with Stock Market...
By Staff Reporters *** *** For the last two years, the Corona Virus killed Americans on a brutal, predictable schedule: A few weeks after infections climbed so did deaths, cutting an unforgiving path...
View ArticleUPDATE: Domestic Markets and Interest Rates – Again?
By Staff Reporters *** *** The stock market could fall another 26% if the Fed gets too aggressive with its interest rate hikes, according to Goldman Sachs. The Fed is expected to raise interest rates...
View ArticleUPDATE: The FOMC Raises Interest Rates
By Staff Reporters *** *** The Federal Reserve hiked its key interest rate by 0.75% for the third time in a row as it races to get ahead of the galloping inflation that is sapping the earnings of...
View ArticleFOMC: Will Raise Interest Rates in November?
By Staff Reporters *** The Fed is poised to raise interest rates just one more time in November before stopping, according to Ed Yardeni. That’s because there is a growing risk that financial markets...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: The FOMC Raises Short-Term Interest Rate 0.75%
By Staff Reporters *** The Federal Reserve jut raised its short-term borrowing rate another 0.75% to slow key areas of the economy and tame inflation, which is at a 40-year high. The central bank said...
View ArticleTwo Year Treasury Yields = HIGH!
By Staff Reporters *** *** U.S. bond yields just rose to new cycle highs as the fallout from the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate hike and commentary reverberated across markets. The...
View ArticleDAILY UPDATE: Stocks Down by Rate Setting FOMC Hawks
By Staff Reporters *** *** U.S. equities ended the day lower in a cautious trading session as the markets reacted to a host of economic and corporate data. Investors also weighed comments from Fed...
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