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The dramatic title above echoes a trend of recent articles we’ve seen preying upon fears that the U.S. will lose its spot as the default global currency of choice. Recent announcements by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have talked about potentially adding the Chinese yuan as an official reserve currency. The hot take from this has been to infer that it means the U.S. is getting knocked out of the top spot. However, many investors don’t realize that the IMF
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I don’t know about you, but lately my newsfeed has been inundated with headlines and stories about gold. It seems many of these articles are written or sponsored by someone trying to get me to buy the shiny metal. Many make the same cliché claims about why gold is a wise investment: it provides safety during financial crises, it hedges against inflation and it creates wealth. Unfortunately, these claims encourage people to buy gold for the wrong reasons. Apocalyptic Protector?
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“Buy low sell high” – it sounds so simple when you say it out loud. Yet in practice it’s one of the hardest things to do if you let your emotions get in the way. We tend to view investing through a different lens than many other aspects of life. For example, if we were in Costco looking to buy a new TV, we wouldn’t get upset if a worker came up and knocked 20% off the price. In fact,
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