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2022 was an incredible year, riddled with “unprecedented” moments… And for most investors, it was likely in a bad way. For the first time in history, both stocks and bonds fell double digits.U.K. bonds fell 50% in two days (they were 5X more volatile than Bitcoin).Some of the pandemic’s best-performing stocks fell 90% or more.And with five bear market rallies, it was one of the most volatile years in history.Naturally, investors want to know what to expect in 2023.Here at Intelligent Income Daily, our goal is to introduce you to the best income-producing opportunities in the market. The kind that...

Russian stock market sank 17 per cent in Monday's trade as President Vladimir Putin said his country was mulling recognising the independence of east Ukraine's two separatist republics, further escalating the Ukraine crisis. Europe markets were all in the red.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Thursday rubbed it in that Vice President Kamala Harris’s thankless portfolio of responsibilities means she will never get credit for anything. While Harris was assigned by President Biden to halt illegal immigration, a national problem the vice president has failed to solve, Buttigieg has won positive headlines in the establishment media by allocating Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.

Any ideas on who has the best finance/portfolio site...Yahoo Finance has improved theirs again, now virtually unusable...

General Electric announced a radical plan to slim itself this morning. It will sell the majority of its GE Capital assets, which represents $500 billion in assets. It will sell nearly all of its real estate portfolio to investors including Blackstone Group and Wells Fargo & Co for $26.5 billion. The company also said its board had authorized a share repurchase program of up to $50 billion. "This is a major step in our strategy to focus GE around its competitive advantages,” GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt said in a press release.

Former Texas Congressman Ron Paul is known for his full-throated endorsement of gold as money. And he's put his money where his mouth is by investing in a lot of it.Last year during the presidential election, The Wall Street Journal reported on Paul's financial disclosure. The Congressman's portfolio was heavily weighted with precious metals. Last year we learned that a shocking 64 percent of Paul's $2.4 to $5.5 million portfolio is tied up in precious metals like gold and silver. At the time, people were gushing at how smart of a move that was in that market. But today, gold is getting massacred — it's been said to...

In this video I give you a rundown of a portfolio that I think will hold up in any adverse market collapse. The premise boils down to 3 major equity/asset categories: 1)Energy %25 2)Precious Metals %25 3)Defensive (ie Walmart, JNJ, McD,etc) %50 This is a simple, straight-forward approach to protect your capital and wealth in this tulmultuous time. Part 1: Just a recap, here are the companies I give a green thumb to: Energy: 25% of Portfolio 1) Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A) 5.5% yield 2) Calumet (CLMT) 10% yield 3) Uranium Participation Corp (URPTF) 0% yield or Cameco Corp (CCJ)...

..On a campaign swing through Cherokee, Iowa, Perry was asked why the Employee Retirement System should be paying his retirement while he's still collecting a salary. "That's been in place for decades. ... I don't find that to be out of the ordinary," Perry said of the practice. "ERS called me and said, 'Listen, you're eligible to access your retirement now with your military time and your time and service, and I think you would be rather foolish to not access what you've earned.'" ...The governor's gross annual salary is $150,000; his net salary is $133,000. The net monthly annuity...

For decades, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, has warned that our fiat currency will collapse around us, leaving everyone in economic shambles. Gold, he says, is the surest path back to sound money. In a CNBC interview earlier this month(during which host Joe Kernen misidentified Paul as not being a gold investor), Paul extolled the virtues of gold as protection against the continuing ripples of the global financial crash. "I think what we're dealing with is the end of the dollar reserve standard," Paul said. "This is probably a bigger problem than the world has ever faced before." But, fittingly, Paul...

Well, this is predictable... Today members of Congress has to reveal their stock holdings. We were curious what anti-Fed, pro-gold Congressman Ron Paul held, and no surprise, he likes gold. Lots of it. Here are the stocks he owns. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Agnico Eagle Mines Alumina Common Anglo Gold Ashanti Ltd. BrigusGold Corp. Com MPV (formerly Apollo Gold Corp) Barrick Gold Corp. Claude Research Inc Coeur D'Alene Minds Corp. Gold Corp Inc El Dorado Gold Corp. IAM Gold Corp. Kinross Lexam Explorations Inc. Mag Silver Corp. Metalline Mining Co. Mutual Securities Inc. Newmont Mining Corp. Pan American Silver Petrol Oil and Gas...

Now that commodities (NYSE:DBC) are in focus, I reached out to my friend Jim Rogers to get his insights into where the commodities rally is headed. As usual, Jim had some great nuggets of wisdom: Damien Hoffman: Jim, what’s going on with food commodities (NYSE:DBA)? Jim Rogers: I’ve been trying to explain to people for a long time what’s going on, but for some reason nobody listens. Normally at this stage of the commodity bull market you would expect new capacity to be coming on stream. The problem of course is that in 2008 and 2009 everybody got hit. So,...

If you "want to be hedged for complete disaster – World War III… you are better off in commodity-related investments", says Marc Faber in the latest issue of US financial paper Barron's. That might seem drastic. But Faber is convinced that China's rise, and its diminishing dependence on America, means that "eventually, we will have a war, big time".

Pres. Barack Obama doesn’t talk about “government spending,” he talks about “investing in America,” which sounds more thrilling but amounts to the same thing. And the man who fancies himself our national investment guru will no doubt take tonight’s State of the Union address to pitch us a bunch of new exciting financial opportunities, like some ephebic stockbroker just out of training. If we must endure the rhetoric of investment, it is fair to ask: How is Obama’s portfolio doing? Compared to its slick prospectus, the Obama Fund is a dog, and its metrics — unemployment and growth — are...

Boehner has stock in BP, other oil companies When her day job as House speaker ends, Nancy Pelosi might one day retire to her vineyard in Napa Valley. Annual financial disclosure reports released Wednesday show that most congressional leaders have built up nice nest eggs, including investments worth millions, to see them through when they finally give up their hold on political power. Mrs. Pelosi can repair to her vineyard in St. Helena, Calif., valued at between $5 million and $25 million, that she owns with her wealthy real estate-magnate husband, Paul. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could return to...

During a recent speech, money manager Van Hoisington, president of Hoisington Investment Management, asked his audience of sophisticated investors to raise hand if they thought inflation was going to be a problem sooner or later. Everyone raised a hand -- except Hoisington. This "inflationist view of the world," which he outlines in his firm's recent quarterly review and outlook, stems from Milton Friedman's observation that "inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." Hoisington goes on to say that "the Fed has expanded money supply dramatically, and since inflation is too much money chasing too few goods," people think inflation...

VANITY FARE: CONDE NAST Closing 'PORTFOLIO'... Lost $100,000,000 in two years...

Could global warming burn your portfolio? As climate change emerges as a hot topic in corporate boardrooms and on the political stage, investors are scrambling to figure out how the reams of newly available data about companies'"carbon footprints" and other environmental risks should influence their investment decisions.

CROYDON, N.H. -- When Ken Dandeneau lost thousands of dollars he had taken from a safe deposit box in January, he and his wife figured they'd never see it again. But when Ken Blanchard dug it out of a snowbank this month, he never considered keeping it. The $8,000 was for a settlement on a house, and Dandeneau had it in a zippered portfolio. He had planned to convert it into a cashier's check the next day. His wife, Susan, put it on the roof of their car, thinking he couldn't miss it. He did, of course, and it fell...