Throughout the last 6 months, the stock market has been hoping for a "goldilocks" scenario. With the Fed raising interest rates aggressively to fight inflation, the market participants were looking for any sign the economy was slowing enough to cool inflation, which in turn would lead the Fed to backing
If I told you at the start of the year we'd have the second largest bank failure in the history of our country in March, you'd probably expect the stock and bond markets to have a rough quarter. While we saw a short sell-off, stocks finished the month with a
It's probably hard for most people to understand 25 years ago the Federal Reserve was quite secretive and didn't have the sole (perceived) focus of keeping the stock market afloat. Then in 1998, the Federal Reserve decided to bailout a handful of Wall Street banks who were overexposed to a
In June we issued 3 bear market tips – stay calm, ignore the media, and be patient. In September we followed that with some reminders on navigating the bear market including the primary things to remember – inflation is the problem, the Fed has barely begun their fight against inflation, both of
The third quarter is in the books and like the past two we saw stocks and bonds declining. Even inside of a bear market we should see a bounce. As we've been warning throughout the year, just because the market is able to rally it doesn't mean the bear market
