Posts Tagged ‘inflation’

• Why it’s still smart to own bond mutual funds
• POSTED 01.7.11

If you’re invested in bond mutual funds, relax. The Great Bond Collapse, touted by so many noisy commentators last month, has been put on indefinite hold. Fears of ramped up inflation and spikes in interest rates were premature. Bond funds still look like sound investments, for income and diversification.
So make yourself a hot cup of [...]

• Should you buy stocks now?
• POSTED 05.15.10

What’s an investor to do? In the past three weeks, Greece melted down, a terrorist attacked Times Square, the Dow dropped 600 points in seven minutes and then spiked back up, BP befouled the Gulf of Mexico, and a volcano wrecked the airline industry’s profit plans. If you’re sensible you, um, buy stocks.
This isn’t a [...]