Don’t you wish it were as easy to get positive news as negative? With technology from which you can be almost instantly aware of any tragic death anywhere on the globe, we have to decide that we want to balance our information intake. I don’t suggest a head in the [...]
Once again, the health care debate has heated up in this country. Don’t worry, I’m not going to get political. In fact, I think the inflammatory rhetoric from all those in power has caused us to lose sight of some basic economic principles that govern all industries, including health care. [...]
On a recent Sunday morning, my pastor asked the following question, “What does your ideal community look like?” I have to admit my thoughts first drifted to the small, northeastern town of Stars Hollow, where Lorelai and Rory Gilmore call home. I imagined walking through this picturesque town saying hello [...]
Sustainability is a new buzzword in our world. From my life experience, nothing is truly sustainable without change--sometimes massive--required to cope with external causes or even the forward march of human drive for improvements. We are experiencing a bull market for stocks that is approaching 98 months since March 9, [...]
Even at this point in the economic cycle after eight years of horribly slow growth and stock market recovery from 2008-09, my associate, Aaron Pickert, and I are still bullish. To commit a spoiler however, there are some conditions over which you readers who like to worry may safely do [...]
Recently a friend mentioned he was considering cashing out his 401(k). On the outside I remained calm and quietly listened to his plans for the money, on the inside I was screaming NO! He explained that he was leaving his current job and because he didn’t have a large amount [...]
A few weeks ago, I described the stock market January Effect test as an indicator of the probable direction of indexes for the rest of 2017. Since one-twelfth of the year has zoomed by, let’s look to see what happened. By the way, the indicator is infinitely more accurate than [...]
For long term readers of this column, you might remember the stock market January Effect from prior years. The basic premise is that if the stock market is higher after the first five trading days of January, and if it ends the month higher than the end of December, odds [...]
Is there a link between the markets and our next President? Is it really the economy, stupid? Could it be that utilizing polls or stock market indicators to gain an edge won’t give us an answer this time? After all, polls leading into the most anticipated Presidential debate of our [...]
Decades ago following World War II, these United States were about the only part of the globe left without major damage to the industrial infrastructure. With it and the workforce remaining, we were blessed to be able to produce a fantastic amount of everything known to man and send it [...]
