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The Fed: An Economic Counterweight
The Markets If you’ve ever waited in traffic while the center section of a bridge lifts to allow ships and sailboats to pass underneath, you may have noticed...
The Markets & Homeownership
The Markets & Homeownership The Markets Higher bond yields may be good for income investors for the first time in many years. After more than a decade of...
The Markets and Mushrooms!
The Markets ReboundTo the great relief of the Federal Reserve, the American economy has been experiencing a slowdown in the rate of inflation. For example, we...
The Growing Popularity of AI
Artificial IntelligenceArtificial Intelligence is traveling on a fast train. Investors are enthusiastic about AI. Late last year, an AI research lab...
Everything’s Up! Rates, Jobs, the Markets, and the National Debt
SurpriseRecently, the continued strength and resilience of the labor market was a revelation. The Federal Reserve has raised rates 10 times over the last 14...
Earnings Season
The Markets - It's Better Than ExpectedIt’s earnings season – the time when publicly traded companies report on how profitable they were during the first...
Easter, The Masters, Spring, and Blooming Flowers!
The MarketsCurrent economic conditions can be interpreted in different ways. Recent data and a possible credit crunch, resulting from the upheaval in the...
Golf vs. Investing
The MarketsSpring has arrived and Jon Rahm just became the fourth golfer from Spain to win the green jacket at The Masters! So let’s talk golf for a moment....
Sibling Discord: Stocks and Bonds
The MarketsStocks and bonds are two of the better-known asset classes in the family of potential investments. Recently, they were in opposition. Bond interest...
Brace for a Bumpy Ride
The MarketsThere was some unwelcome information in recent economic data that caused markets to reassess expectations: Inflation didn’t fall as fast as...
Rolling Recessions and the Value of the Employee
The MarketsWe finally have an up month – a happy start to a new year! January 2023 was the first positive month for the market after being very volatile...
The Cycle of Inflation
The MarketsThe vicious cycle of inflation continues. We recently learned that pay increases at central banks in many parts of the world won’t keep pace with...
The Year’s End
WHAT WILL THE YEAR-END BRING? Throughout 2022, the United States Federal Reserve has been trying to slow inflation by putting the brakes on the U.S. economy....
Riding Out The Storm
It continues to be a challenging time with the downturn of the market and with inflation of the economy, causing interest rate hikes. History proves that...
The Markets
Here are some quick snippets of the latest financial news … Despite signs that inflation is slowing, Fed officials emphasized their commitment to a tightening...
Wait and Watch Mode
The Markets Here are some quick snippets of the latest financial news … Despite signs that inflation is slowing, Fed officials emphasized their commitment to...
An Undecided Market
“Don’t fight the Fed.” -Marty Zweig, famed investor and market forecaster, 1970. The “Fed” is the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States. Among other...