By Ken Fisher, New York Post, Monday, April 21, 2025
President Trump’s April 2 “Liberation Day” was far worse – more “tariffying” – than what I and most others expected. His subsequent pauses and flip-flops have launched veritable vertigo in stocks and bonds. So maybe you’re thinking of bailing before yet another shoe drops?
Read MoreBy Ken Fisher, New York Post, Monday, March 24, 2025
Bitcoin has been on a roller coaster since the November election. Should you be strapping yourself in, or should you unbuckle and climb out of the car? The post-election boom pierced $100,000, leading bulls to speculate that seven digits were next as “pro-crypto” President Donald Trump prepared to take office. Then, a day after the inauguration, a slide of more than 20% began.
Read MoreBy Ken Fisher, New York Post, Monday, February 24, 2025
The war is over. Not the war in Ukraine or Gaza — I mean the war on inflation. Shoppers, understandably, are still freaking out in the grocery aisles, most recently over egg prices. Meanwhile, economists, politicos and pundits continue to sweat allegedly “sticky” categories for goods and services and rising wages — especially after January’s Consumer Price Index accelerated.
Read MoreBy Ken Fisher, New York Post, Monday, January 27, 2025
Last month, during the thick of the holidays, I found myself in a rare though not totally unprecedented predicament: I wasn’t sure which way to bet on the stock market in the year ahead. In my December column, I told you there were three possible 2025 outcomes – all of them seemingly likely, and to a vexingly similar degree. I also told you that I’d come back to you when I could conclude which is, in fact, the most likely.
Read MoreBy Ken Fisher, New York Post, Monday, December 30, 2024
Beating the stock market requires knowing something important that others don’t. When I am lucky enough to take advantage of this basic investing truth, I never fear sticking my neck out. I did it with my outlook for 2023, which was followed by my outlook for 2024. Both were pound-the-table bullish – and pretty darned accurate.
Read MoreBy Ken Fisher, New York Post, Monday, November 25, 2024
Whether you’re an over-educated egghead or a high school dropout, there’s a good chance your mind can be boggled by the dollar figures that surround the US debt. No doubt, Uncle Sam’s outstanding obligation of $35 trillion – yes, that’s trillion, with a “T” – looks like a very, very big number. Also consider that in 2020, the total was “only” $27 trillion. Debt fears feel so right. And Trump’s promised tax cuts are dead ahead. Eek!
Read MoreBy Ken Fisher, New York Post, Monday, October 21, 2024
Remember those bears growling through the spring and summer about rising unemployment numbers? September’s better-than-forecast jobs data finally silenced them. But any more bad reports in the months ahead, and they’ll be back. They’ll also be wrong. Again and again. Season after season.
Read MoreBy Ken Fisher, New York Post, Monday, September 23, 2024
World peace. Calorie-free cheesecake. Sensible politicians with your interests at heart. Like all these pipe dreams, investment strategies promising both growth and capital preservation are phony baloney. Fiction. Yet so many vendors in varied forms – especially in rocky times like this summer’s – claim otherwise, peddling poor products destined to disappoint. Rational expectations are key to successful investing. Growth and true capital preservation can’t coexist in the short run. However, achieving growth likely means accomplishing both in the long term. Confused? Let me explain.
Read MoreBy Ken Fisher, New York Post, Monday, August 26, 2024
So it looks like the Fed will finally cut rates in September. But by how much? And is it too late? Too early? After witnessing decades of endless soothsaying and hand-wringing over the central bank and its next moves, I have reached a straightforward and decisive conclusion: Who cares?
Read MoreBy Ken Fisher, New York Post, Sunday, July 21, 2024
Inflation! Jobs! Deficits! Tariffs! Regulation! Tax cuts! Tax hikes! Yes – there are plenty of economic questions to worry about when it comes to the 2024 election – and that’s aside from which candidate is getting shot at and which is confusing his opponent with his running mate. So what does all the outsize election drama mean for stocks?
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