Daniel Amerman

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

Biography

• The Imminent Multi-Trillion Dollar Surge In Social Security and Medicare Costs

  Published 06 December 2016 | viewed 0 times

  For decades we have known that the time would come when Social Security & Medicare costs would begin a rapid and explosive growth upwards. That…

• Trump and The Fed

  Published 11 November 2016 | viewed 0 times

  There is critical information in the first 45 seconds of the Donald Trump campaign video below. Now the election is over, and this nonpartisan analysis…

• Pension Shortfalls Could Be 4X To 7X Greater Than Reported

  Published 23 September 2016 | viewed 0 times

  The reported shortfall for the California Public Employees Retirement System (Calpers) is $139 billion - but that is based upon investment assumptions that may be…

• The Gold To Housing Ratio As A Valuation Indicator

  Published 13 September 2016 | viewed 0 times

  The Gold to Housing ratio is a quite useful measure for evaluating relative values between real estate and gold, and also has an interesting historical…

• Brexit and The Precipice

  Published 30 June 2016 | viewed 0 times

  With the victory of the "Leave" camp in the June 23rd referendum in the United Kingdom, the world finds itself on the edge of a…

• A Visual Look At The Fed Decision From A Retirement Investor's Perspective

  Published 31 March 2016 | viewed 0 times

  Below is the transcript for the video. While the images are included below, the motion graphics and use of a pointer are quite helpful for…

• Margin Rules Changes Force New Private Funding of Public Debt

  Published 04 March 2016 | viewed 0 times

  FRA Co-Founder Gordon T. Long and Dan Amerman have an in-depth conversation covering various topics such as Financial Repression, Quantitative Easing, devious actions of the…

• Will Capital Controls Return?

  Published 12 February 2016 | viewed 0 times

  The average person may have no interest in capital controls, but to rephrase a well-known saying, capital controls are interested in you. The residents of…

• Margin Rules Changes Force New Private Funding Of Public Debt

  Published 19 January 2016 | viewed 0 times

  The Federal Reserve and other regulators around the world (including all members of the G-20) have recently agreed to alter margin rules, which will allow…

• Does The National Debt Supercycle Override The Normal Interest Rate Cycle?

  Published 29 December 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Markets and economies usually run in cycles and there have been numerous previous reversals where falling interest rates have been replaced by rising interest rates.…

• Misleading The American Public: Social Security and The National Debt

  Published 08 December 2015 | viewed 0 times

  We are told that many economics experts don't worry about the total national debt because $5 trillion of that debt doesn't really exist; it is…

• US Regulators Mandate Next Stage Of Textbook Financial Repression

  Published 29 October 2015 | viewed 0 times

  With comparatively little fanfare, Fidelity Investments has announced that 100% of their $115 billion Cash Reserves fund, the world's largest money fund, will be invested…

• What Two Risks From Rising Interest-Rates Could Each Trigger A New Global Crisis?

  Published 01 October 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Why are interest rates at historic lows in the United States and around the world? The widely-accepted answer is that very low interest rates exist…

• The Eight Energy Systems Driving The Stock Market Rout

  Published 28 August 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The energy systems which drove the global stock market rout have been building for months and years, and by the spring of this year, the…

• Game Theory and Retirement Choices

  Published 10 August 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Game theory is a hot topic in many fields right now and for good reason - it can uncover better ways of making decisions, that…

• The Gold/Housing Ratio as a Valuation Indicator

  Published 28 July 2015 | viewed 0 times

  The Gold/Housing ratio is a quite useful measure for evaluating relative values between real estate and gold, and also has an interesting historical track record…

• Are Roth IRA Owners Likely To Be Subject To Double Taxation?

  Published 09 July 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Roth Individual Retirement Accounts are an uncommonly attractive and powerful method of creating wealth for retirement when viewed from the usual financial perspective. What sets…

• The Greek Stress Test and The Reality Of Incremental Changes

  Published 01 July 2015 | viewed 0 times

  With the Greek banks closing, capital controls being imposed, and the unwillingness of the European Central Bank to expand its emergency liquidity assistance program -…

• Can Computer Data Entry Banish Investment Risk Forever?

  Published 25 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  Can the mere act of someone typing numbers into a computer transform our financial future and the standard of living for all of us? To…

• Is Simple Incompetence The Real Source Of Crises?

  Published 10 June 2015 | viewed 0 times

  There are two quite different narratives for explaining the financial crisis of 2008, the resulting Great Recession and the chances for a new crisis. The…