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Recently, the Federal Reserve raised the discount rate after nearly 14 months from 0.5% to 0.75%. This article explains if more rate hikes in store and what this rate hike means for stock, bond, commodity, and cash investments. Read Federal Reserve Discount Rate and Your Investment Decisions .

The risk-free interest rate (the interest rate where the risk of direct default is close to zero) should reflect the economy-wide time preference, meaning that it should reflect the general desire to save (postpone consumption) relative to the general desire to consume.

Famed market commentator and CEO of SharkInvesting.com James 'Rev Shark' DePorre, provides weekly insight on where he thinks the markets are going and how to navigate through the financial seas. In this episode, Rev Shark talks about the importance of Intel's (NYSE: INTC) #'s and the market psychology around this earning's season.

In 1987, when Alan Greenspan began his tenure as Federal Reserve Chairman under President Reagan, each American's share of the national debt was approximately $8,500. Now, 22 years, trillions of dollars, and four presidents later, the national debt per capita has ballooned to nearly five times its previous sum, now totaling about $40,000 per American.

Yesterday's price plateau around SPY $113.30 has been tested twice and held on mixed economic news. Like the news, internals are also mixed with Cumulative Tick net negative, mild yet positive Advance - Decline readings, and slightly outpacing Up Volume.

Last week, silver decided to thrust above the toppiness that caused so many traders to fret (see "Silver Topping Out?"), only to score a fresh double-top.

New York State is running out of cash.Without a budget deal, New York will be left with just $36 million in the bank by the end of December, according to current projections.

While I was on a bull/bear debate last week on CNBC Reports with Dennis Kneale, the host referred to our country as Pax Americana. The name was given in reference to the Pax Romana (an era of peace and prosperity enjoyed by the Romans in the first and second century AD).

Leading provider of DNA-based security solutions, Applied DNA Sciences, Inc., announced today that it has joined forces with Banknote Watch, government and police companies devoted to fighting the ongoing battle against cash-in-transit (CIT) crimes. The company’s SigNature® DNA marks, which work to dissuade criminals, helps the CIT companies lower costs and minimize risk to their personnel.

To my readers: thanks for your responses to yesterday's article. I will do a follow up piece soon. If you have more comments please make them - they will help me with the piece. Main new concepts coming - need for a deliverable, speculators can't trade with speculators, only hedgers.

Robert Prechter was the Monday interview in Barron’s this week. He is not one of my favorites as he appears to be a one-outcome guy but that does not mean there aren’t any interesting points because there were a few.

For the first time in the history of the company Microsoft is taking on debt. Microsoft (MSFT) is looking to raise up to 6 billion dollars in capital by offering long term debt securities. Microsoft will offer 5, 10 and 30 year bonds.

Dow Chemical finally cut its dividend for the first time in almost 100 years. Dow is cutting it dividend by 64% from 1.68 cents to 60 cents. This is a good first step to improving the company’s cash position but the dividend cut may not be enough. Unless Dow receives a significant cash injection it is unlikely that

A description of GAAP versus accrual accounting and how it can affect investors' perception of a business' performance. I also go on to discuss enterprise value versus traditional share value investing techniques and how you can use these various techniques to gain insight that the rest of the market may be missing out on.