Articles written by Ricky Cox - Benzinga

How Rapid Inflation Can Work For You

Over the past year, the money supply in the United States has grown at an unprecedented rate and these alarming trends are showing significant signs of acceleration as coronavirus stimulus programs continue to pump trillions of dollars into the economy.

Network Effects That Enable Sustainable ETFs To Drive Powerful Returns For Investors

There is a scientific formula known as “Metcalfe’s Law” that has been the driving force behind the fortunes investors have made in sustainability-focused stocks like Tesla and Enphase Energy. Metcalfe’s Law quantifies the network effect and proposes that the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of users. As more customers join forces

Green Investors Handily Beat the S&P 500 Over the Past Decade, Can They Do it Again?

Long derided as a poor way to make money, sustainable investing broadly outperformed the broader indices over the past decade and through the pandemic. The traditional logic had been that divesting from the companies driving climate change like oil companies, airlines, automakers, and coal power plants comes at a cost. However, the past ten years was a lost decade for shares of US e

Investors Debunk 3 Big Lies About Inevitable Climate Change

Traditionally investors have bought into the concept that environmental mandates come with a significant cost relative to investment performance. However, David Miller and Rob Gough the portfolio managers of the new Strategy Shares Halt Climate Change ETF (Nasdaq NZRO) know that the opposite has been true. If you had eliminated the worst polluters including oil companies, airlines,

Inflation: The Pickpocket Among Us

Inflation is the economic equivalent of a human pickpocket, anonymous and unnoticed amid a crowd of revelers, sneaks close and pilfers the purses of the unwary.

Gold Is A Natural Hedge Against Bad Fed Policy

Gold doesn’t get any respect for its core attribute. Some investors think of gold as an inflation hedge because it has maintained its purchasing power over time. Others seem to think that gold is some type of hedge against a stock market crash. Yet gold doesn’t correlate with the stock market and it doesn’t move in lockstep with the Consumer Price Index

Is This The Best Gold ETFs To Hedge Against Inflation As The Fed Runs The Printing Press Hot?

On March 23rd Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, said Sunday night on CBS’s “60 Minutes” that “there is an infinite amount of cash in the Federal Reserve. We will do whatever we need to do to make sure there’s enough cash in the banking system.” Approximately 12 hours later, the Fed aggressively started a policy o