Through June 28th, the S&P 500 Index has tallied a -20% return over 68 negative trading days this year1. With each additional negative day in the markets, investor confidence continues to erode. As the emotional toll...
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How many billionaires are there today in the United States? While there is no definitive count, most estimates put the number at no more than 1,000. Whatever the precise number, given the power of compounding, there should be...
Charlie Ellis, called Wall Street’s wisest man by personal finance columnist Jason Zweig of the Wall Street Journal, is a renowned investment consultant I have quoted many times. The thrust of his advice (indeed, he wrote the...
A booming economy. Animal spirits in the financial markets pushing speculative stocks up to unheard of valuations. Rising inflation pressures pushing bond yields upward. An overseas war dominating the news cycle… Sound familiar?...
Everybody knows – 1. Inflation is back. 2. The Fed is going to continue raising interest rates until inflation breaks. 3. Rising energy prices, food prices and interest rates are an economic depressant, but the Fed’s got this....
I’ve put off writing about the topic of budgeting for some time now, probably for the same reasons that most people hate talking about it. Budgeting is boring, inconvenient, and restrictive. Aside from all that, many get to a...
This is important, so please read. Remember this chart from our recent blog A Timeless Lesson – Don’t Miss the Forest for the Trees? Well, there is another chart below that goes along with it. It is a graphic of the portfolio...
As we cross into the second week of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, investor willpower is being put to the test. On top of the war, investors are combatting inflation concerns and impending interest rate hikes that have...
The events of the last few weeks are certainly unsettling, but unfortunately not unprecedented. Whether we are talking about Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, the start of the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, or Pearl Harbor, a...