The time around Christmas and New Years can be stressful for many people. Thankfully for me, my wife is well organized and takes care of most of the holiday prep work throughout the year. Our workload at SEM is always much busier, but our systematized approach and heavy use of
For most of my career there has been a nearly unshakable belief that the Fed was all knowing and could control the direction of the market. This is despite the fact they've always been too late to change direction or to fully understand the inner workings of the financial system.
Usually for the last Cornerstone blog of the year, I just post a "year in review" where I share all the Cornerstone blogs from the year. While I will still provide all the blogs from the year for you to review, I also wanted to share a quick Christmas devotional
There are certain terms on Wall Street which get thrown around quite a bit that few people understand. Even those of us who follow the market closely may not understand the meaning of the latest buzzword used to describe the market or economy. The most frequently used word this year
December is a time to look back at the year that was and turn our attention to what the new year may look like. For the stock market, following a sell-off in 2022, the new year brought impressive gains for the overall index (albeit heavily skewed to a handful of