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Starting your own business may be the best way to get wealthy… and you can do it with minimal risk.

As the country debates defunding the police and making face masks mandatory, we rub our head and worry that our slippery slope is turning into a steep cliff.

If you’re thinking when you retire you can live off some kind of fixed income portfolio, forget about it.

That’s a myth now.

Sure, there was a time when you could, but that’s gone the way of the dodo bird and free markets.

With the Federal Reserve manipulating interest rates “lower for longer” for decades and lately driving them down to near zero, or maybe busting another myth and turning them negative some time in our future, there’s no way anyone can retire comfortably, or retire at all, on a fixed income portfolio.

Not only isn’t there enough yield to be had, unless you load up of the riskiest bonds out there and good luck with that, you’re at increasing risk of losing money on your fixed income dreams in more ways than you know.

Here’s why and how traditional fixed income investing for your retirement is a bad idea and what to do instead.

The American government’s response to the coronavirus has been tyrannical… and it has to stop.

To say the market’s been on a tear would be like calling the Grand Canyon a ditch.

Last week the Dow ran up 1,727.87 points to end the week 6.8% higher. That’s half the gain in a good year. The S&P rose 4.9%. And the Nasdaq Composite, on an intraday basis, made a new record high, climbing 3.4% on the week.

All week the “honey badger” (Google: honey badger don’t give a damn) proved it don’t give a damn about China, or protests, or politics, or anything. It just keeps on going, doing what it does, keeps going.

And then on Friday, when the world was expecting the U.S. to lose 8 million jobs in May, the unemployment rate was expected to hit 20%, and the market to keep going anyway, only one out of those three things happened.

The U.S. didn’t lose jobs, it gained 2.5 million jobs. And the UE rate didn’t tick up to 20% from the previous months 14.7%, it fell to 13.3%. Of course, the honey badger did what it does.

Is it “irrational exuberance” or are investors taking a nothing matters and what if it did attitude?

It’s both actually.

What’s happening in our nation today is a conversation that needs to happen. Here’s our take…

The free market isn’t free anymore, even though a lot of retired and soon-to-be retired folks think it is.

The truth is nothing in the capital markets moves freely anymore, especially interest rates.

Now, frighteningly, because America has morphed into a quasi-command economy where the Federal Reserve dictates economic policy, retirees don’t understand how dangerous most bonds and fixed income products have become in the new normal “socialized capital markets regime.”.

Here’s what’s being manipulated, why it’s bad, how it’s impacting fixed income investments, and what retirees and soon to be retired investors should be doing instead of putting themselves at great risk.

Mark Ford provides some easy, practical ways to earn extra income by freelancing online.

Our Triad is in a fight for its life. And your money, your health and your freedom are on the line.

Airline stocks have been essentially grounded, for very good and obvious reasons.

But, like the rest of the stock market, as the airlines see the economy opening up, as the TSA tells us there are more travelers every day, as investors rotate into cyclical sectors and beaten down stocks, tarmac tied airline stocks should benefit, big time.

That said, timing the rise of airline stocks and choosing individual names isn’t the easiest game in town.

Fortunately, there’s a simple way to play the sector in one fell swoop.

The U.S. Global Jets ETF (JETS) is well worth looking at, if not taking a long-term position in.

This isn’t a new ETF that was put together so investors could suddenly jump into the beaten down sector. The JETS ETF has been around since 2015. But saying it’s been overlooked would be like calling the Grand Canyon a ditch.

No-one paid much attention to JETS, until it became a highflier recently.

Up until early March the fund had only about $33 million under management, that is tiny for an ETF.

As an investment or trading vehicle it was too small for me or my subscribers to bother with, primarily because of its thin daily volume and spreads that were too large to make getting in or out tenable.

That’s all changed.