AboutTodd Wood, Author at Affluent Christian Investor
Detroit is the Canary in the Coal Mine for Munies
I have pleasant memories of Detroit. For almost fifty years, I have been making the summer drive to the Mackinaw City area of Michigan near the Upper Peninsula. Until I was a teenager, we used to pass through Detroit on … Read More
Dodd-Frankenstein Set to Go Global: Investors Beware
Three years after Dodd-Frank came alive, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission was set to enforce its cross-border derivatives rules on July 12th, 2013. The CFTC has primary responsibility for overseas derivative trades (a small slice is reserved for the … Read More
Todd Wood to Moneynews: Interest Rate ‘Shock’ Is Coming
Todd Wood
Born in Georgia and raised in Savannah, Todd spent his early summers in Carp Lake, Michigan listening to the vivid stories of his grandparents recalling their youth in the northern wilderness. Ever since his earliest days, he loved … Read More
Russian Realpolitik Could Lead to Higher Oil Prices
The civil war in Syria and its many moving parts have Americans confused as to what should be the proper response from the United States. Especially confusing is the nature of the Russian involvement in the conflict; ie, their motivation … Read More
One Way to Play the Coming Interest Rate Storm
To continue on the theme of an interest rate shock, I thought I would put out an idea of how to make money from this scary scenario. It seems to me we have a plethora of negative trends in … Read More
Trouble with the (Yield) Curve
As I’ve said before, interest rates only go from twenty percent to basically zero once in a lifetime. I’ve also discussed here my view that an interest rate shock is in store for the United States in the … Read More
The Cooling of Global Warming and How to Profit From it
Poll after poll is being released that points out the obvious: The public is just not that worried about global warming. I think that’s probably because human-caused global warming doesn’t exist! Yes, the climate changes–it has changed for millions of … Read More
Ma, There’s a Storm a Comin’
I laughed at the talking heads’ reaction to the sell off in the bond market over the last few weeks; there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth over a fifty basis point rise in the ten year. Yes, it … Read More
Blood in the Streets
I was never any good at timing the market and picking intra-day winners. However, I have developed a keen sense of when an asset class is really out of whack pricewise. The NASDAQ closing in on 5000 comes to … Read More
Defense Cuts are Worrisome
The United States historically has played a very needed role in the world. We have not seen the type of aggression and global conflict that we did in the early twentieth century since America emerged from WWII as a global power. … Read More
“But What Can We Do?”
Last Saturday I was invited to speak at an event in Asheville, NC and discuss the book. I spoke for about fifteen minutes on my background and why I wrote “Currency and then opened it up for questions.” My girlfriend … Read More
Billions and Billions!
So the venerable J.P. Morgan with the fortress balance sheet and exemplary risk control posts a $2B+ loss. Quite a shocking number but not surprising.
The banks are scrounging for ways to make money. With the Fed printing money and … Read More
Emporer Has No Clothes
I recently shot a video segment for a national online news outlet in which we discussed the debt burden of the United States and possible solutions. The host of the segment was rather young and kept firmly stating that the … Read More
The Country with the Golden Gun (James Where Are You?)
Oh man, wouldn’t this make a great Bond flick? Let’s lay out the screenplay.
Western nations are awash in debt as the consequences of the welfare state play themselves out. The European Union establishes a common currency with no political … Read More