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  • TSP Smart: Oil Prices Go Negative

    I would think that the price of oil dropping to negative forty dollars a barrel (-$40) on the May Futures qualifies as interesting. It brings up the question of “what does that mean” from many angles such as:

  • TSP Funds: Don’t Tell Me

    Don’t tell me you saw an article saying now is the time to buy the dip or hang on and wait it out. Don’t tell me you are still listening to all the clowns trying to freeze retail investors in place. Please don’t.

  • Doug Noland: The Solvency Problem

    Somehow, we must convince younger generations that the culprit was unsound finance. And it’s absolutely fixable. Deeply flawed, experimental central banking was fundamental to dysfunctional markets and resulting deep financial and economic structural impairment.