The Ultimate Strategy For those of you who read my weekly updates, I usually tell a story or discuss a relevant aspect of the global economy. Due to the holiday season, I have several partially written pieces, but none that were completed. Part of this is due to the holidays, the other part is because … Read more
A Tale of Three Bubbles My wife came home from Target early one morning after picking up a few critical supplies and relayed the following story. While waiting in line, she overheard a woman talking on her cell phone at the self-checkout registers. The woman was telling the person on the other end how she … Read more
The Fed Strikes Again This week I was planning on writing about how the Fed’s policies are going to prevent the economy from fulfilling President Trump’s campaign promise of generating 3-5% annualized GDP growth, but as of Tuesday, that topic isn’t what’s on my mind. For those of you who don’t know, I begin the … Read more
Your home — and even maybe your vacation home — can be a large share of your worth. When it comes to calculating the size of your retirement nest egg, the value of your property may be no yolk. (OK, that was a bad pun.) As workers near retirement age, they tend to view all … Read more
The Magic Levitating Market Today the stock market appears to effortlessly rise as if there isn’t a worry in sight. Any bad news that causes stocks to fall is quickly reversed within minutes or days. Volatility has been crushed to historically low levels giving the average investor the confidence to take more risk than they … Read more
A Market Built on Nitroglycerin In 1847, nitroglycerin, a heavy and colorless, oily liquid, was invented. Nitroglycerin was primarily used as an explosive, but for more than one-hundred years it has also been used to treat heart conditions. It is so unstable that the original German factory where it was produced exploded several times, killing … Read more