With stocks notching all-time highs here and abroad, investor skittishness is likewise going through the roof – after all, there’s more to lose than ever, right? Here are four particularly niggling and nervous questions I have been fielding of late. Let’s try and sort out which are worth our time – and, of course, our money.

Don’t the economy and stocks need the Fed to cut rates NOW ?

Might Fed cuts benefit America? Sure! Cuts can steepen the yield curve — the gap between short-term and long-term interest rates. This spurs bank lending, as I detailed in July — one crucial reason that US stock markets this year have been outrun by rate-cutting Europe and other markets overseas. 5

But that doesn’t mean the US desperately needs cuts. As America’s own yield curve flipped fr

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