When it comes to my personal finances, I like to do my research, set goals, create a plan, and then take action. This past month, Gold News & Views has been dedicated to these steps—ways we can examine our current portfolios, how to set goals for the new year, and actions we can take to…
Whenever I look at financial news these days, I often wonder if I’m reading the day’s headlines or headlines from the week or even the month before. The word I see over and over again is “inflation”—and the tone with which it’s used seems to be getting more and more serious. Take this January 12,…
With a new year come new chances for growth—and that includes growing your wealth. But when it comes to your personal finances, it may be wise to do some research or seek additional guidance before diving headlong into a new financial plan for 2022. So first, let’s see what the experts are saying about this…
How do you treat the start of a new year? For me, it’s a chance to reflect on the past 12 months and try to learn something new. Looking to the past can often help us better prepare ourselves—and our portfolios—for the future. We can’t determine precisely what will happen next, but we may be…
2021 has been another year of challenges for all of us—but challenges provide us with an opportunity to grow and improve. As we begin our journey into 2022 and beyond, I’d like to share with you some positives from this past year at U.S. Money Reserve. Gold has remained strong throughout 2021. On August 7,…
Saving for retirement isn’t just about ourselves—it’s also about creating a legacy that can be passed on to our loved ones. Thankfully, many different avenues and options are available to us as we build our retirement portfolios—so when one option is no longer available to us, we gain the opportunity to reevaluate our strategy and…
The holidays are getting closer, and you’ve decided (perhaps after reading last week’s blog) that gold may be the perfect gift for your loved ones. So now it’s time to dig just a little deeper and examine some of your many options when it comes to buying gold. For example, our Account Executives at U.S.…
Recently, we released our 2022 Global Gold Forecast, a compilation of data about gold’s recent performance and information regarding market forces that may impact gold’s upside potential in 2022. In preparing this special report, I found that it became clearer than ever to me how important a role gold plays in our portfolios and why…
Today (November 11, 2021) is Veterans Day. And as we’re spending this month’s Gold News & Views examining the things that make us feel thankful, I want to step away from gold for a week and discuss a topic that’s very important to me as well as our entire team here at U.S. Money Reserve:…
Every day, I take a minute to remember all the things I’m thankful for: my health, my family, my “work family” here at U.S. Money Reserve. I’m also thankful for the opportunity to retire (someday!)…but that doesn’t mean I’ll ever stop working to make my retirement more comfortable or working to make a better life…
On October 22, 2021, Reuters reported that Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says he finally “think[s] it’s time to taper” the Fed’s massive bond-buying program aimed at injecting extra money into the recovering U.S. economy. Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman Sachs, says that U.S. economic growth is “clearly slowing.” If this shift away from…
The debt ceiling crisis has been pushed back until December…but there’s still much work to be done, both by Congress and consumers. The Senate has passed a limited increase to the debt ceiling that will allow the federal government to pay its bills until December—but that means Congress has only two months to decide if…
