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Is It Contrarian To Be An Optimist?

September 25, 2020

Optimism: The odds of a favorable outcome are in your favor over time, even when there will be setbacks along […]

Easy Policy Is Here To Stay

September 25, 2020

The Federal Reserve has two primary jobs: maintaining maximum employment and stable prices. How it achieves this is changing. Last […]

Numbers Don’t Lie

September 25, 2020

Vanguard recently published a study on performance of a 60% stock /40% bond portfolio in election years vs. non election […]

Leading Indicators and Lumber

August 27, 2020

One of our go-to indicators to track the direction of the economy is the Conference Board’s Index of Leading Economic […]

Trending In The Right Direction

August 27, 2020

Encouraging trends are pointing to a healing labor market. Unemployment claims fell below one million per week to 963,000, beating expectations […]

Election Talk

August 27, 2020

The U.S. Presidential election is a little more than three months away. The campaign will be vigorously contested by both parties, […]

The Big Six

July 23, 2020

Six stocks currently make up almost 22% of the S&P 500 Index: Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet (Google), Netflix and Microsoft. […]

Return Free Risk?

July 23, 2020

Popular wisdom holds that stocks are risky and bonds are safe. Over the last several months, huge amounts of capital […]

10 Years of Jobs…POOF!

June 18, 2020

Over the past few months, we have been asked several times how the market can be rising in the face […]

What Do Homebuilders Have In Common With Virtual Meetings?

June 18, 2020

One thing we can say about the pandemic is that it is accelerating many trends that were already in place, […]

Good News From The IRS – No, Really!

May 14, 2020

If you withdrew funds from your IRA this year as part of a required minimum distribution (RMD), you are probably […]

Pandemic Scammers

May 14, 2020

Now is the time to be extra vigilant against scam artists seeking to defraud individuals during this Covid- 19 pandemic. […]

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