Since I started in the industry in the mid-90s, the jobs report has been the most important economic data point of the month. This means the first Friday of every month (sometimes the second if the first Friday is the 1st and sometimes 2nd) has the potential to be
It seems whenever I decide to take a day or two off I'm greeted with a flurry of things to work on. This most certainly was the case after I took Friday off last week to spend the weekend "camping" with our two oldest grandchildren at the beach (some
Do you know what you do in August in Arizona? You start power ranking months because there is nothing to do in August in Arizona unless you want to lose your sanity. And surprise, surprise, August finds itself dead last in my rankings. If you have any outside activities to
We were in Arizona last week and had the opportunity to be a tour guide to somebody who had never visited the Southwestern US. The whole week she was in awe about the beauty and how much you can see. The cover image today was the sunset on our last
For those of you who weren’t aware, our intern Toby, who had his own “Toby’s Take” section of the blog while he was seeing if he wanted to pursue a career in finance, started an apprenticeship earlier this summer with a commercial HVAC company. Last week we were
