Have you been caught trying to accomplish God's will in your way? In other words, are you trying to take God's will for your life and accomplish it with your own effort, resources, etc.? It can be so easy to get caught up in the work and unknowingly have your
Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death. - Proverbs 10:2
Do you truly know what you are invested in? Not just the companies in your portfolio, but how the companies profit – which in return, is how you are profiting. According to Morningstar, if you
Unprecedented actions lead to unprecedented consequences. Back in April 2007, I wrote one of our most popular articles, "The Pending Forest Fire". At the time people thought we were crazy. Everything was booming. Real estate, stocks, the job market. We were in a new era where the Federal Reserve was
Minus a 6-8 week bump in the road during COVID, stocks have been going up nearly non-stop for 11 years. We did see a couple of "slowdown" scares in late 2015 and again in 2018, but with hindsight those were buying opportunities. Both of the slowdowns came at a time
The real risk to the rally
For most of the year the focus has been on the Russian invasion of Ukraine (rightly so). This may have caused some big swings in the stock market, but this focus has hidden the real risk to the nearly 2-year stock market rally. In