Everything becomes more clear as we gain the benefit of hindsight. My experience and SEM's use of quantitative models which remove emotion from the decision making certainly makes it a bit easier for me to see things a bit more clearly in real-time, but I am also human and there
Whether sports, business, or war, the person designing the strategy is attempting to confuse their opponents to gain an edge. Sometimes the goal is to throw complete chaos at them. If they don't know what to expect, they will always be on their heels.
For most of modern US history
Relatively speaking, last week was fairly quiet. We did have some Trade War 2.0 whiplash on Monday and early Tuesday and again on Friday, but based on the past month it was nice to focus less on the latest Truth Social post from the President and more on the
On Monday Nvidia lost $589 BILLION on market cap, a new record. Nvidia alone accounted for 2/3 of the drop in the S&P 500 index. We have discussed the lack of diversification and concentration risk in the S&P 500 occasionally the last couple of years.
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
