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Fear travels like wildfire; in fact, today, at the speed of light.  Stock markets around the world just succumbed to a list of worries centered upon the outlook for growth and our economy.  Was [...]

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So, the stock market got hit; if not by a hurricane, then at least by a strong squall.  Just like Hurricane Michael, this wave of selling spooled up quickly.  What set it up?  Pundits point to a [...]

Based upon really good economic news, interest rates have just taken a big jump.  The stock market has paused and is trying to figure out if this is bad or good.  On the one hand, higher rates [...]

For years after the financial crisis of 2007-2009, investors worried about a second dip; a return to recession and crisis.  Since the tax cuts along with decreases in the regulatory burden, [...]

The U.S. Department of Labor  just reported that our economy expanded at a 4.1% rate for the second quarter. This is a massive improvement over the 2 – 2.5% rate we were growing just recently.  [...]

Right in the middle of earnings season, the results look fantastic!  Not only are earnings growing, so are revenues; and not by just a little.  Both are advancing at a furious pace.  It all looks [...]

Investors must remember, tariffs are a means to reduce imbalances and unfair trading practices.  They are not meant to be a permanent solution.  They are a way to impose costs on certain trading [...]

“Home of the brave and land of the free”; it’s good to be an American.  Our market-based economy isn’t perfect, but it has elevated so many out of poverty and has provided some of the best living [...]

If we don’t yet have a trade war, we’re at least fighting some increasingly serious skirmishes.  Our side’s calculation is that this is a good time to pressure our trading partners for [...]