So something happened Wednesday & continued on Thursday. Something that seems to be completely out of the ordinary over the past 10 years of bullish markets. A 3% one-day S&P 500 drop will surely halt the record gains that the economy has been
Which sounds worse?
Dow plummets 800 points
-or-
Stocks decline 3%, still above June levels
Both describe what happened on Wednesday, but I’m guessing nobody’s smart phone was popping with the latter alert. Why would you click on that headline?
Yes, it
When you hear a non-business radio station discussing the rise in interest rates it is clearly something people are starting to notice. Most people, including too many financial reporters want to group all interest rates into a single category. They do not understand the inner-workings of how interest rates are
What’s the Score?
With football season in full force and investors once again wondering why they aren’t getting double digit returns like the S&P 500 index, I thought I would bring out my favorite investing analogy (paraphrased from Mike Mason of Mason & Associates in
I realize in a 9-year old bull market talking about risk management will not generate a lot of clicks to our site. For whatever reason, the past few weeks have seen a large number of portfolio reviews from prospective clients that included “Target Date” funds. These funds have
