Author Archives: Tipswatch

Great question from reader Drew: Tipswatch — I hear you on “buy and forget it”. I’ve been doing that for years to build out a 30-year ladder which anchors the ‘safe’ allocation within my portfolio. But I have a bit … Continue reading →

The downgrade of U.S. debt might have helped to send world stock markets reeling, but the target of the downgrade – U.S. Treasuries – showed impressive power Monday as a ‘safe haven’ in uncertain times. Yields on Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, … Continue reading →

This was inevitable, wasn’t it? China is the world’s largest holder of U.S. debt, and now it is holding downgraded debt.  China is not happy, as you can see in this report on Marketwatch.com: “The U.S. government has to come … Continue reading →

Bill Gross, who runs the world’s biggest bond fund at Pimco, says in an interview with Bloomberg that the U.S. economy is stalling and a recession is a real possibility. In another Bloomberg interview, Harvard University economics professor Martin Feldstein … Continue reading →