The AIA Advocate Newsletter
From: The Research and Editorial Staff of
The Association for Investor Awareness, Inc.
The AIA “Advocate For Absolute Returns”, a publication of The Association for Investor Awareness, tracks market trends, industry news, the SEC, global trade and finance and Washington developments for you because they affect your investments. But who doesn’t? Many sources report these issues as abstract facts.
We feel that’s not enough…
The AIA Advocate’s job is to warn you of what’s important and how these developments translate to ground-level forces and threats that directly affect your wealth as well as your current investment opportunities. Not just information, but information you can use.
The Age of Intervention Continues
By Dennis Miller One key perk to working alongside investing seers is the opportunity to ask them the big questions. Wondering what lies ahead, I asked Casey Research Chief Economist Bud Conrad and technical analyst Dominick Graziano to share their views on what investors should expect in 2015. These two…
Can a Doublewide Save Your Retirement
By Dennis Miller The rumors are true: Florida is full of 55-plus communities with rows of doublewide mobile homes. The nicer ones have amenities like golf courses, swimming pools, clubhouses… you name it. As you’d expect, the living cost is modest. But here’s the part that blows people away: many…
Fears Of Russian Financial Crisis Roil Equity Markets
Gary D Halbert Between the Lines Most Americans and others around the world are benefitting from the dramatic collapse in oil and energy prices. If oil prices remain around $50 a barrel this year, AAA estimates the energy savings should be $50-$70 billion in the US alone in 2015, or…
Gallup: Economic Confidence Highest Since 2008
Gary D. Halbert Between the Lines Gallup’s U.S. Economic Confidence Index tipped into positive territory last week for the first time since January 2008 when the Great Recession was just starting to unfold. The Index averaged +2 for the week ending December 28, suggesting that Americans are feeling the accelerating…
The Conundrum Facing Janet Yellen & the Fed
Gary D. Halbert Between the Lines The final 2014 meeting of the Fed Open Market Committee concluded yesterday, and the official policy statement released afterward contained some new language that surprised most Fed watchers. Throughout this year, the Fed’s policy statements have included an assurance that the central bank would…
How Republicans Can Dilute Obama’s Amnesty
Gary D. Halbert Between the Lines While I try to avoid purely political topics in my weekly blog, President Obama’s latest tirade of new government policies that I discussed on Tuesday is clearly over the top. His latest Executive Order to grant defacto-amnesty to some five million illegals is, many…