I hope you are well and that 2023 is off to a great start. After a very long and uncomfortable 2022, I am hopeful that the worst is behind us and that we can look forward to a better market this year. At least we’re off to a good start. While all the major indexes [...]

In the early 2010s, the great financial crisis of 2008/09 was still on the minds of investors. That coupled with any number of other crises, including the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, multiple threatened/one actual shutdown of the Federal government, innumerable debt-ceiling-hike standoffs in Congress, and more. Investors were worried about the future. [...]

As I am sure you are aware, the market is down over the last few weeks, and we are now approaching the lows from mid-June. The thing about down markets is that you never know you have hit the bottom until you can see it in the rear-view mirror. And the other thing about down [...]

There is a lot of talk in the media these day about a recession. We’re in a recession – we’re not in a recession – a recession is coming. So, which one is it? Technically, a recession in the United States is defined by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and NOT simply as [...]

I hope you all are having a great summer!  Clearly the market could do more to help, but alas that is not the case. It’s amazing how quickly sentiment can change. While there were some rumblings of stormy weather late last year, the market hit six new all-time highs from mid-November until the last one [...]

I hope your summer is off to a great start! I've been enjoying being a first-time grandmother and starting anew by moving into a new house. It is fun and refreshing to clean up and out. As for the markets, it's been frustrating that the U.S. and International stock markets, the U.S. economy, and the bond, real [...]

Higher prices throughout the economy, higher interest rates from the Federal Reserve, and the ongoing Russian war on Ukraine make market participants quite uneasy. And with this uneasiness, the market continues its relentless dive from all-time highs in early January. We know that markets go up and markets go down and this down period will [...]

With the domestic and international equity markets currently in bear market territory and the bond market in an even steeper bear market since October of 2021, the only places to best shelter in investments recently have been in the #1 ranked position Commodities, such as energy, agriculture, nonferrous metals, and precious metals.  Also, in Domestic [...]

We are all quite accustomed to volatility in the equity markets, but we are also learning that economic growth can be volatile. You will surely read some scary headlines over the next few days about not just slowing growth, but an actual decline in economic activity in the first quarter of the year. This is [...]

The images coming out of Ukraine are both troubling and tragic. The U.S. and many other countries continue to increase pressure on Russia and Belarus with ever-widening sanctions. And it’s not just sanctions levied by governments, we are now beginning to hear that companies are doing what they can to isolate Russia to help bring [...]