My Comments: Social Security payments are a critical financial component of many lives these days. When it began in 1935, there was much gnashing of teeth among the political parties since it represented a recognition by the government that some people needed help. This was in a world recovering from the Great Depression and watching …
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The Good News Behind GDP’s Decline
My Comments: For almost four years now, I’ve posted ideas and comments that related to the economy, to investing, sometimes to politics, sometimes just weird stuff. The idea was to give me an outlet where I could be free to share ideas that I thought might be helpful to friends and clients and whomever happened …
Good Company, Bad Stock
My Comments: This post is to remind you that stock market performance and the state of the economy do not follow the same track. From time to time there are close parallels, but they dance to a different drummer. My arguments that the stock market is due for a crash are unrelated to the state …
Group Health Insurance is Bad For America
My Comments: Followers of this blog know my reasons for wanting to keep the PPACA in place, mindful of the need for a lot of modifications. What you may not know was about 40 years ago I cut my teeth in the insurance world selling individual health insurance policies. My market was staff and faculty …
Tricks of the Mind Turned Oil Into Gold
My Comments: Once again, I have a blog post about OIL. Clients are asking me how was it possible for the price of oil to rise as far as it did just a year ago and yet here we are, with the per barrell price 40% of what it used to be. If it’s economically …
The Stock Market Is Overvalued, No Matter How You Measure It
My Comments: Some of you will think I’m an alarmist. And perhaps I am. But the signals that have been present for some 18 months are getting louder, much louder. I’ve not included all the charts that appeared with this article as there are too many of them and they are all negative. Here’s a …
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How Old Was That Shoeshine Boy Again?
My Comments: As we start the new year, and review the annual statements that will soon arrive, most of us are painfully aware that managed portfolios didn’t do very well in 2014. As an advisor, I keep asking myself how I justify charging my clients a fee when the results are consistently poor. More than …
A Tale of Two Markets
My Comments: Yesterday the price of oil dropped below $50 per barrel for the first time in a long time. The stock market dropped. In earlier posts about the price of oil, I suggested there was good news and bad news associated with the drop in the price of gas at the pump. Now that …
Happy New Year! A Grand Illusion?
I apologize for being philosophical and rambling on, but I am prone to do that as my years accumulate and future years become less certain. Today is January 1, 2015. It’s important for us to recognize this day, the first day of the calendar year. It is significant in human terms, celebrated across the civilized …
A Terrific Message…
Those of you who know me well know I am not very spiritually inclined. However, I am inclinded toward elegant ideas, artfully expressed. This message comes from a speaker at Abiline Christian University. I enjoyed it. You might also.
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