Imagine returning from a weeklong vacation to find your house unlocked. If you’re like me, your first thought would be, “oh no, did someone enter and steal anything?” Unfortunately, we do not get the same visual “cues” when our financial...
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By Erik W. Laymon, MBA Originally Published: 12/20/2017 Updated: 2/24/2021 Definition of Bitcoin Bitcoin is a digital currency that is sometimes referred to as digital gold. Indeed, it shares many features of gold, which is partially why Bitcoin...
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The stock market has always recovered from every crash, no matter how bad the bear market or recession actually was. Even though the stock market recently dropped -39.4% in just 24 days, it is our belief that this year’s “COVID...
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By Erik W. Laymon With 2020 well underway, we took a few minutes to review what happened over the last 10 years. Align Wealth Strategies is presenting our Decade In Review. US Unemployment and Job Market: Unemployment dropped from 9.7%...
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Almost everybody is familiar with the business cycle. Our economy expands and contracts. Before many contractions, the yield curve inverts, which basically means investors are accepting lower investment returns over the long term, due to economic concerns over the short...
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