Whether you're ready or not, we are about to see a 100 day (or longer) period filled with a flurry of new policies out of Washington DC. There have already been many predictions of these policies leading to robust economic (and thus stock market) growth. If we learned anything from
One of the hardest lessons for finance graduates is understanding the moves in the market often go completely against the tens of thousands of dollars their education taught them. One reason I enjoy being a guest lecturer at Liberty University is I get the opportunity to teach a small subset
We survived the first couple of days of 2025 along with the first test of our newly elected government – the re-election of Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House. This may seem inconsequential to some, but on Wall Street everyone was holding their breath to see whether or not we'd
We're at that point of the year between Christmas and New Year where it's hard to remember what day of the week it is. At SEM where we have advisors across the country it will be a heavy dose of "out of office" messages when we try to contact them
Last week on an advisor call I was recapping my post-election blogs as I discussed: the euphoric post election rally, not letting political opinions influence our investment decisions, valuations and the chances of yet another 20%+ rally in 2025, what tariffs really are and the likely impact on the economy
