Are famous people “experts”?
What qualifies someone as an "expert"? In the investment world it might just mean you have a TV show, but does that truly qualify them?
The US Dollar – Where does it stand?
Recent events and headlines have some people wondering - should I be worried about the value of the US dollar? In this blog we review currency performance and global usage.
Should You Worry About the U.S. Debt Limit?
Have you been reading about the debt limit? In our latest blog we explain what the debt limit is and our thoughts on the current situation.
Will Your Bank Be on the List?
Banking fears are real and on everyone's mind. Will your bank be next on the list? How do we prevent more banks from failing? In 2022, the Federal Reserve told…
Volatility Fatigue – Q1 2023
Turbulence in the stock market often leads to “volatility fatigue”, tempting many to move into cash, locking in their losses in the process.
Q4 2022 – The Capital Markets Don’t Care About Talk
Some are saying “the 60/40 portfolio is dead.” This is another way of saying that diversifying into fixed income to reduce portfolio volatility doesn’t work anymore, even though it’s always worked in the past.
Those Four Nasty Words in Investing
“This time it’s different.”
It’s the phrase investors use to rationalize why they are bailing out of stocks.
“Math is Math” – Reviewing Q2 2022
Disciplined investors view a bear market as a great opportunity to invest available cash into stocks trading at deep discounts. But those who fled the market in early 2020 struggled with staying disciplined. Their fears, emotions, and worries about a very uncertain world got the best of them. These same investors are likely not viewing the current stock sell-off as a buying opportunity. As we like to say, “Math is math” and perhaps it really is an opportunity for many of us given these lower prices.
Five Technology Behemoths
If you want to see, perhaps even enjoy, an exercise in futility, run a search in Google on this phrase:
Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!
It is a wry and wise way of turning the conventional wisdom about what to do in bear markets on its head. When panic grips the stock market – as it did in February and March of this year – the gut instinct of investors is to do something.