August 16, 2019
You may have recently heard the phrase on your favorite news channel or website.
The Yield Curve Has Inverted!!!
The what? It’s upside down? Can we flip it back over?
What It Means
When you borrow money, you will generally pay a higher interest rate the longer you want to...
August 5, 2019
What happened?
Last night, China’s central bank allowed their currency, the Yuan, to fall in value compared to the U.S. Dollar.
Why did they do that?
Because you can now buy the same amount of Chinese goods with relatively fewer U.S. Dollars, which partly negates the tari...
June 21, 2019
There has been a lot of chatter about “the next recession” as of late. And by late, I mean nearly the last decade. The very fact that it has been a topic of conversation for so long portends the fact that we can’t accurately predict when they’re going to happen. Howeve...
January 4, 2019
"The fact that your brain becomes more risk seeking in bull markets and more conservative in bear markets means that you are neurologically predisposed to violate the first rule of investing, 'buy low and sell high.’”
-Daniel Crosby
"Every past decline looks like an oppo...
November 5, 2018
"The stock market is the only market where things go on sale and all the customers run out of the store...." - Cullen Roche
Market Summary
October was a wild ride for stocks, with the S&P 500 shedding 6.9%. Here’s a summary of what’s going on in the market.
1) Interest ra...
July 26, 2018
I occasionally receive the question - “My neighbor is invested in [insert the latest hot stock or industry], shouldn’t I be as well”?
My answer is almost always “Probably not”, which is never a popular answer if the stock has actually been performing well lately.
Some of...