…economy. Examples of indicators in the CEI include nonfarm payroll employment, the unemployment rate, average hours worked in manufacturing, and wages and salaries. The chart above does a nice job…
…10 percent was a good estimate for 2023. There were more bears than bulls, though with most of the other responses coming in with losses clients and just a few…
…that the work of some perma-bears, or is it a recognition that there’s always something lurking around that we should be worried about? I think it’s the first one, but…
…that Buffett was not worried, even though he was largely silent at the time because he knows that even the most successful investing takes time and goes through rough patches.…
…to get too depressed during the bad times OR too excited during the good times: we’ve planned for both. For now, I’m happy to report on the good times. Enjoy!…
Returns for stocks are great everywhere you look in the developed world. One of the best places though is in small US stocks. The Russell 2000, the most common small…
…-10.8 percent. That closes the gap some, but there’s obviously a lot more to go. Over the weekend, I took a look at some of the valuation metrics for the…
…expected to die, it’s a probably estimate. Half the people with your circumstances (heredity, physical condition, gender, etc.) will die before their life expectancy and half will live longer. This…
…Fed’s current toolkit, which includes rate cuts, asset purchases (quantitative easing) and forward guidance; but also said that other tools such as inflation targeting and GDP targeting may be necessary…
I’d like to meet the person in Washington who comes up with the silly names for laws just for the purpose of creating a catchy acronym. Case in point is…
