The best thing investors can do about the US debt ceiling issue is to talk about it and do nothing. In 2011, a Democrat White House and a Republican Congress had a similar debate about the debt ceiling. The Obama administration argued that failure to raise the debt ceiling would result in a sovereign default

It is always a difficult time to invest. When markets are turbulent and falling, investors will tell you it’s a difficult time to invest. When markets have been rising on low volatility for as long as the current market has, investors will tell you it’s a difficult time to invest. Why is it such a

The Singapore property market has been receding slowly since 2013. It has bottomed and will rise. There are a number of factors behind this. The Singapore economy is stabilizing and will accelerate from this year onwards. No economy slides for multiple years without recovery. The Singapore economy is an uncommonly trade oriented economy with imports

Mutual funds have a bad name, and yet, they remain a useful investment tool. Here are some of the advantages of investing through mutual funds. They provide instant diversification. By pooling the assets of numerous investors, mutual funds allow an individual to invest an amount of capital which would be impossible to diversify if they

The ideal conditions for a country with a large national debt is high inflation. Inflation is a threat to purchasing power and can drive interest rates and debt service higher. Ideally therefore, what a highly indebted nation requires is high asset price inflation and low consumer price inflation. These are the prevailing conditions in the