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Why do we care what other people are doing; and what are the implications for our personal financial situations? What makes this question so fascinating is that most people claim to march to the beat of their drum, unbowed by social convention. They may think this, but the hard truth is that whether we realize… Read more »
Before the financial crisis in 2008 we used the tag line, “More than Riches – A Rich Life” to describe our philosophy about money. Put more succinctly, our services were not so much directed toward helping clients build their net worth, as using the money they had accumulated to build a rich life, in a… Read more »
Is it possible to have too much of a good thing when it comes to low interest rates? We expect the answer to that question may be emerging in the relatively near future. As a general principle, low interest rates are perceived as a positive for business as well as the stock market. Credit is… Read more »
Most of us would like to view our lives, or at least our life expectancy, as a continuum projecting our lives out to infinity. The unfortunate truth is that our lives can more practically be viewed as being on an arc comprised of a beginning, middle and an end. For some odd reason, perhaps self… Read more »
With just two years remaining on his term, President Obama is beginning to pull out all of the stops to increase spending while the getting is good. According to the non partisan Congressional Budget Office, the Federal budget deficit will continue to shrink for the next couple of years before it begins its inexorable rise… Read more »
Any time an asset or commodity falls 50% or more over a six month time frame, it is bound to make news. The continuing fall in oil prices has certainly been headline news as most consumers welcome falling energy prices. Unfortunately, the panic in the energy patch is not necessarily an unalloyed benefit for consumers…. Read more »
My mom used to tell me that there is nothing as powerful on Earth as an idea whose time has come. Historically, we can point to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the founding of our Republic and the advent of digital technology as but a handful of examples of this truth. While each of… Read more »