HeyJaredBill Schmick
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@theMarket: Bonds are breaking bad but equit (opens the original)
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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Bond market volatility has thrown investors for a loop as yields across the board have risen to multi-year highs. Oil prices are also gaining, forcing global central banks into a higher-for-longer interest rate posture. Equity investors simply yawn. Thirty-year Treasuries hit 5.44 percent--a 20-year high. The Ten-year registered 5.23 percent while shorter-term maturities all registered multi-year highs. Meanwhile, as diesel fuel broke $6.50/gallon, Brent crude was above $106/
The Retired Investor: Hedge Your Home Heating Oil Now (opens the original)
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Home About Archives RSS Feed The Retired Investor: Hedge Your Home Heating Oil Now By Bill SchmickiBerkshires Columnist 04:25PM / Thursday September 24, 2026 The airways are chock-full of stories bemoaning soaring gasoline and diesel prices lately. Much less attention is focused on rising heating oil prices this coming winter. All the inflation data is reflecting how these rising energy costs are impacting your pocketbook. For diesel, which fuels the transportation industry and most of commercia
The Retired Investor: The Fed, the Treasury, and the bond market (opens the original)
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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Fed raised the Fed Funds rate by one quarter percentage point on Wednesday. The markets interpreted the move as the first in what could be several more hikes in the months ahead. Will that solve our inflation problem? The Fed can only control the short end of the yield curve. Raising the Fed Funds rate will accomplish little when the main drivers of added inflation are tariffs and the price of oil. As for the country's out-of-control spending, the debt and deficit are fis
The Retired Investor: High Noon for the Bond Vigilantes (opens the original)
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Home About Archives RSS Feed The Retired Investor: High Noon for the Bond Vigilantes By Bill SchmickiBerkshires Columnist 09:31AM / Friday September 04, 2026 It was to be expected. Financial markets almost always confront a new Fed chair. That may still be true, but Kevin Warsh isn't the one in the firing line. It is the U.S. Treasury Secretary Scot Bessent. The bond vigilantes have had their way in the bond market recently. When Kevin Warsh took over the Fed in May, he made it clear the Fed wou
The Retired Investor: Saverâs Match Offers Some Workers up to Half Their IRA Contribution (opens the original)
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The Trump administration’s ongoing effort to help low- and moderate-income taxpayers save towards retirement took another step forward last week. The new program will impact millions of Americans who have struggled to save in an economy where they can barely make ends meet. In a follow-up to my mid-May column on President Trump’s efforts to provide new retirement savings vehicles to low-income Americans, a new modification to his existing program was announced last week. As I wrote previously, "
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