You know it’s late August when corporate earnings season is over, the market is trading off of whatever little news is available, and volatility increases (many Wall Street people are on vacation, trading volume is low, so market moves tend to be exaggerated). That’s where we are now.  It feels the same as last August, [...]

The market took a big dive yesterday and the news media screamed about an inverted yield curve and a recession. You might ask, so what is an inverted yield curve?  During most times, investors require higher payments (yields) for buying longer-dated bonds. Or think of a CD –  a bank typically pays you more interest [...]

Mark Twain once joked, “I’ve been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.” The same can be said for investors. Since the financial crisis, investors have spent a lot of time and energy worrying about events that seemed destined to send the markets into another deep dive. Remember these events? [...]