Commodities have spent the past year doing something most equity investors barely noticed: compounding quietly while the headlines stayed fixated on AI capex and Fed cut paths. WTI crude sits at around…
Energy prices in the United States just did something violent. The PCE energy index jumped 11.56% month-over-month in March 2026, which pushed headline inflation back up to 3.5% year-over-year after a year…
The April inflation rate is at 3.8%, much higher than expected, while energy is ripping. Meanwhile, the inflation hedge most retail investors still have not heard of is quietly compounding at a…
The stock-bond correlation that defined portfolio construction for four decades has quietly broken down. When both equities and Treasuries fell together in 2022, and again during the volatility spikes of 2025, investors…
The Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF (NYSEARCA:SCHD) is performing well again, but the rationale for not holding all your eggs in one basket still rings true. Thus, looking into alternative dividend ETFs…
