Bluemound Asset Management
Risk Managed Investing for Volatile Times Protect and Grow Your Financial Freedom
Request Information & Schedule a Time to Talk

Risk Managed Investing With Advisor & Columnist Kirk Spano

Fee-only Registered Investment Advisor

Fiduciary Acting in Your Best Interests

Find Me in the Press

Read my analysis in the Wall Street Journal network at:
MarketWatch.com
Investment ideas, research and strategy at:
SeekingAlpha.com
My articles aggregated from around the web at:
TipRanks.com
Interviews, radio, webinars, conference calls and podcasts.
Play now
My background, mission and philosophy.
About Kirk Spano
Investment Management
Fee-only fiduciary investment management designed for your goals and risk level.
Grow & Protect
Portfolio Consulting & Investment Coaching
I offer low cost portfolio consulting and investment coaching on a retainer basis.
Design a Better Plan
Alternative Investments
Investments for those concerned about inflation & global financial stress.
Qualify Now
Do-it-yourself Investors
Access to my research and trades, as well as, learn if you are a beginning investor.
Learn More Here

Details

A few years ago, in a 2013 article on MarketWatch, I predicted that by early in the next decade, the United States would no longer need imported oil from OPEC. I was in no uncertain terms told I was wrong by many pundits and commentators, as well as, flat out laughed at.

“…Because the combination of increased solar usage and development of our unconventional oil and gas resources will be the key to complete freedom from OPEC by early next decade…”

The rapid improvements in solar energy, wind power, batteries, electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles, building efficiency and drilling technology, has in fact put the United States on the path I laid out just 4 years ago. That “all of the above” approach, so long as it is not disrupted by politics, will lead the U.S. to not needing OPEC oil imports by the mid 2020s.

fShare

Details

2017 marks the beginning of a pivotal period for the global economy and geopolitical landscape. Over the past 40 years, the underpinnings of expanding global trade — globalization — has led to unprecedented economic growth. The remarkably uneven distribution of that growth and wealth creation, however, has finally caught up with the system. The world is facing a rise of populism with overt nationalist leanings in many countries — much like the period between World War I and World War II. Onto that stage, enter President Trump.

fShare

Details

For the past few years, I have been writing about how the global economy is poised for a very long period of slower growth. Early this year on MarketWatch, I dubbed what was going on as “slow growth forever.” While I know that people want to believe that the global and U.S. economies can grow faster, the reality is that slower growth is structural in nature. 

fShare

  1. Freedom to Profit from Change
  2. Global Risks to the Economy and Markets are Rising
  3. 2016: A Stealth Bear Market Crashes In
  4. 2015 Will Be More Volatile
  5. 2014 Another Crossroads
  6. 2013: We’re Still Here
  7. 2012 Another Year the World Won’t End

From my keyboard…

“I believe that the problems at Bear Stearns are the tip of the iceberg regarding problems that are likely to emerge in the financial sector.“
January 2008 Client Letter
“2012 marks the year that the United States accelerates its transformation from a military super power… to a natural resources super power…“
MarketWatch Dec 2011
“…the dollar is a better currency than gold… if you didn’t already make outsize gains on gold…, then you won’t… because gold is done leading.“
MarketWatch April 2012
“I believe there is a high probability that we do move to the low end of the oil-price range later this year…(with) out of the ordinary price plunges…“
MarketWatch June 2014
“Look for increasing volatility, but no collapse, in 2015…With the Fed also… raising interest rates — I believe not until the 4th quarter…“
MarketWatch Jan 2015