The two dirty words, inflation and recession, are everywhere. Even if you are not into investing or finance, you can’t help but see them all over the news headlines, financial blogs and YouTube channels. It is as if the world is moving toward an inevitably doomed economy, and everybody is going to become poorer.
I have studied a lot about inflation and recession in my more than 15 years of career as a financial adviser. It is not to s...

It never feels good when we are in this kind of market, it is hard to find any optimistic news. From interest rate hikes to inflation fear, from Russia Ukraine tension to global recession. The financial market is upside-down and many cracks are spreading. How should you position your investment to protect your downside and yet capture the new opportunities? Here is my analysis.
First of all, we need to understand that the news sells fears because i...

Russia Ruble has appreciated to a level higher than the pre-war level. The dumb sanction has totally failed and now backfires on the US and Europe.

As unfortunate as it is, Russia has decided to attack Ukraine. While it seems to be a geographic conflict, it is actually a financial war in disguise. As I have explained in this article, there is an invisible financial hand behind most of the geo-conflicts, and the Russia-Ukraine war is no different.
If you are an investor, you need to understand how finance plays a role in the current situation so that not only can you safeguard...

2022 started with the worst January for the US stock market since the last financial crisis in 2008, and it definitely set the investors and speculators jittered. With the fear of inflation and interest rate hike, the mainstream media made a U-turn from their optimism of the stock market just one month ago.
Will the stock market crash further? Is the recession coming?
I document my thought about the market called so I can share ideas, review and learn from my pas...