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Economics

Economic activity drives the underlying thesis of how markets perform. Economics not only helps us predict what may happen but help us understand what has happened.

This forward-thinking principal based in economic theory helps us draft our investment strategy.

These blogs will help you better understand how we invest at RHS Financial and what we think will happen going forward.

8 10, 2018

No, Globalization isn’t Taking Our Jobs, Either

By |2020-04-27T17:18:57+00:00October 8th, 2018|Economics|Comments Off on No, Globalization isn’t Taking Our Jobs, Either

In my last post I dispelled the notion of technological unemployment - despite all the hype, it simply can't be the case that automation is reducing the need for human labor because if it were then we would see a negative correlation between wage growth and GDP growth. In fact, [...]

24 09, 2018

No, Robots Aren’t Taking Our Jobs, Yet

By |2020-04-27T17:18:57+00:00September 24th, 2018|Economics|Comments Off on No, Robots Aren’t Taking Our Jobs, Yet

Certainly you've heard the news by now: inequality is rising, the middle class is being hollowed out, wages are stagnant, fueling populist backlashes from both the right and left around the world, giving rise to our current moment of rising political partisanship and falling social trust. And in the background [...]

9 07, 2018

Social Security is Broke(n) and Cannot Be Fixed

By |2020-04-27T17:18:58+00:00July 9th, 2018|Economics|Comments Off on Social Security is Broke(n) and Cannot Be Fixed

In my last post, I wrote about how as of this year, the US Social Security system is bleeding cash and policymakers will soon be forced to make tough decisions about the future of the program. The long-term financial woes of Social Security are of course well known, and last [...]

6 06, 2018

Free Trade and the Golden Rule of Capitalism

By |2020-04-27T17:18:58+00:00June 6th, 2018|Economics, Postmodern Finance|Comments Off on Free Trade and the Golden Rule of Capitalism

People often ask me why the market, or some segment of it, has been acting the way it has been recently. My go-to response is usually something along the lines of "Well, the market is a chaotic system made up of the decisions of billions of people around the world, [...]

16 04, 2018

The Steamroller: Reflections from My First Black Swan

By |2020-04-27T17:19:29+00:00April 16th, 2018|Economics|Comments Off on The Steamroller: Reflections from My First Black Swan

Investing is a numbers game. With a well diversified portfolio, you make a lot of little bets and on any given day some of them are winners and some of them are losers. In good times more of your bets are up than down, and in bad times at least [...]

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