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.
CBO: $10.10 Minimum Wage Will Kill 500K Jobs
Between the Lines by Gary D. Halbert On Tuesday, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office released new findings which conclude that if the national minimum wage is increased from the current $7.25 to $10.10 an hour, as President Obama is pushing, it would result in the loss of around 500,000 jobs….
The Lay of the Land
By Dennis Miller Building your nest egg and managing it successfully takes more work than it did six years ago, but it isn’t a Sisyphean task. You can build a portfolio that will last the rest of your life. Waiting for the political class to come to its senses is futile. In…
US Falls Out of Top 10 For Economic Freedom
Between the Lines by Gary D. Halbert World economic freedom has reached record levels according to the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom released in late January by the Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. But after seven straight years of decline, the US has dropped out of the top…
65 Is Not a Magic Number
By Dennis Miller Is retirement really all it’s cracked up to be? The answer depends on where you find yourself financially, emotionally, and health-wise come age 65 or so. When we’re young, we trade time for money and hope to stash away enough of it to later reverse the process…
CBO: Obamacare Creates “Disincentive” To Work
Between the Lines by Gary D. Halbert On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office reported that the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) is causing Americans to work less or not at all. This was a surprising turnabout for the non-partisan budget agency that Democrats cited repeatedly when selling Obamacare. Now the…
Pension Promises Go Unfulfilled
By Dennis Miller I don’t know which is worse: realizing you cannot keep a promise you made to someone important to you, or being the person who relied on the promise when you grasp that it is not going to be kept. In 1973, I was 33 years old and…