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Robo-Advisors: What Are They and Are They Right For Your Investments? 3

by Jonathan Dyer
If you’ve researched investing in the past few years or so, one option you’ve probably seen come up an increasing amount is robo-advisors. With a futuristic sounding name that instantly instills images of autonomous mechanical arms making trades, robo-advisors have proven exciting to some while giving other potential investors pause....
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Fed Targets December to Raise Federal Funds Rate - Really?

by Edmund Burden
Despite the Fed’s previous stated intentions to raise the federal funds rate sometime in 2015 no increases have been approved so far. However on October 28th the FOMC announced “in determining whether it will be appropriate to raise the target range at its next meeting, the committee will assess progress...
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U.S. Consumer Sentiment Bullish Despite Weak Industrial Output

by Edmund Burden
According to the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index, which “rose to 92.1 in early October from a reading of 87.2 in September”, the U.S. economy could benefit from a “4 percent annualized rate of consumer spending growth” if this bullish behavior endures throughout 2015. Considering the disappointing impacts of...
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The Pros and Cons of the Strong Dollar

by Jonathan Dyer
If you’re an investor or just a regular watcher of business television you may have heard a lot about the current strength of U.S. currency, although not with the positive inflection one might expect. It almost seems strange to question whether a "strong dollar" could be a good or bad...
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Bernanke Boasts Monetary Policy in WSJ Piece 3

by Jonathan Dyer
How's the economy doing? According to Ben Bernanke, pretty well... and it's because of him. Writing in The Wall Street Journal, the Federal Reserve Chairman explains ever-so-humbly how "the Fed saved the economy." In the piece (which comes on the heels of his book release), Bernanke points to the decreasing...
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