A lot of data hit last week on both the earnings and the economic front. We have even more data coming this week along with a Fed meeting. Interest rates on 10-year Treasuries crossed 5%. The S&P 500 is now down 10% from its most recent high. Add
After spending several months going over how our attitude should be about our finances, there were two months focusing on budgeting -- budgeting basics and understanding debt. This month, we're going to briefly review those two blogs in case you missed them.
Check out the first section review here:
The market moves in cycles of excessive optimism and excessive pessimism. I start out nearly every presentation with this slide:
This is important to understand if you watch the markets closely. It is easy to get sucked into the current narrative which conveniently always is designed to support the current
A lot has been made about the losses in bonds over the past 3 years. Researchers from Bank of America obtained bond market data all the way back to 1787 and found there has never been a 3 year period with this large of a drop in Treasury Bonds. As
We've reached the last month studying through the letter of James. This section is a good wrap up to the rest of the study. While James mainly talks about prayer in these last verses, he also restates some of the key themes of the letter, such as going through trials