by Gould Asset Management | May 28, 2021 | Uncategorized, Claremont Courier
by Don Gould In this two-part article, I suggest that if you could only watch one economic indicator, it should be the interest rate on the 10-year US Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, or TIPS for short. The TIPS bond pays a return that is indexed to inflation....
by Gould Asset Management | May 21, 2021 | Uncategorized, Claremont Courier
by Don Gould The media bombards us daily with economic and financial statistics. Housing starts were up. Jobless claims were down. Consumer confidence is fluctuating. The purchasing managers index was flat. And so on. It’s enough to make your head spin. But there is a...
by Gould Asset Management | Mar 30, 2021 | Uncategorized, Claremont Courier
by Don Gould I remember as a 10-year-old the wonder of my first passbook savings account. It was with a savings & loan (S&L), a bank-like company that focused on home mortgages. The savings account paid a 5.25% interest rate. Every time I visited the S&L...
by Gould Asset Management | Jan 8, 2021 | Uncategorized, Claremont Courier
by Don Gould Frequently we encounter a client who has a substantial cash balance and wants to get it invested for the long term, but is unsure about when to enter the financial markets. The cash might be from an inheritance, the sale of a home or business, or simply...
by Gould Asset Management | Aug 7, 2020 | Uncategorized, Claremont Courier
by Don Gould By now nearly everyone has heard of Bitcoin, the best known example of a category of asset known as cryptocurrency. Digital cryptography techniques protect these assets from theft, hence the “crypto” name. Bitcoin can be purchased with dollars through...
by Gould Asset Management | May 29, 2020 | Uncategorized, Claremont Courier
by Don Gould It is often said that the economy is not the stock market, and vice versa. Never has that seemed truer. In the economy we have witnessed an unimaginable explosion in unemployment, the byproduct of lockdowns to slow the Covid pandemic. 39 million Americans...
