by Manchester Financial | Aug 15, 2011 | Economy, Investing, Markets
Anyone who has even a passing interest in financial news and the investment world knows that we are in a period of unusual events and uncertainty. Although some recent developments are unprecedented, and the headlines can be alarming, history counsels against...
by Manchester Financial | Aug 12, 2011 | Economy, Financial Planning, Markets
Is our country going to start getting calls from debt collection agencies, or have to check its credit reports periodically? Here’s a funny video of how the rest of us have to handle debt problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fujTIOeM2SI By now,...
by Manchester Financial | Jul 5, 2011 | Economy, Investing, Markets
The U.S. and many world market indices were looking at modest gains until they ran headlong into the month of June, when a variety of concerns came together to drive prices lower pretty much everywhere in the world. If you look at the MSCI Developed Markets report,...
by Manchester Financial | Jul 5, 2011 | Economy, Investing, Markets
What does the end of the Fed’s QE2 initiative mean for the markets and the economy? President Obama’s speech on Afghanistan collected most of the headlines, but Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s press conference the same evening was, for some economists,...
by Manchester Financial | Jun 10, 2011 | Economy, Financial Planning, Markets
McDonald’s began selling hamburgers in 1955, when a burger cost 15 cents. In Garrison, Minnesota (the smallest city in America with a McDonald’s), a burger now costs 89 cents. That same burger sells for $1.69 in New York and $1.96 in Los Angeles today....
by Manchester Financial | Feb 26, 2010 | Economy, Financial Planning, Markets
We all have credit and most of us use it daily.It has become ubiquitous in our society, but most users don’t fully understand how it is created and how it is best maintained. Credit supports the foundation of our economy.The upheaval that we all lived through in 2008...
