October 3, 2023 It’s been a tough couple months for the market. The market had been going gangbusters through the first 7 months of the year with the S&P 500 up a full 28% from its low last October. But August and September have always been known to be strict taskmasters. If there are two …
September 29, 2023 It’s definitely been a rough September. Watching your portfolio bleed red every day isn’t a pleasant experience. So I recommend you don’t stare at it all day every day. Downdrafts in the market are totally normal. Painful but normal. The reason for the pause in the current rally is probably attributable to …
September 28, 2023 Time for an interactive experiment… You have to be a little bit older to recognize the name, but Professor Irwin Corey was the (self-proclaimed) “World’s Foremost Authority.” He was actually a great improv comedian whose act consisted of stringing together long threads of big words which, when taken as a whole, made …
September 26, 2023 “I feel your pain.” It’s the phrase that got Bill Clinton elected President. When the economy turns south and things get tight, nobody cares about foreign policy or carbon emissions. They care about paying their bills. They care about how far their dollars will go from month to month. And empathizing with …
September 22, 2023 It was months in the making… “I don’t want to strike, but I will. I will absolutely. Whatever it takes to get what we need and what we deserve.”– Daniel “Chris” Wells, Stellantis employee and UAW member. UAW President Shawn Fain… The union’s goal is not to strike, but that it will …
The Rippling Consequences of Big Labor’s Actions Read More »
September 21, 2023 We’ve been talking about some pretty big numbers lately. Here’s another one… There are roughly 86 billion neurons in the human brain. (Seriously — neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel figured out a way to count them!) These neurons are interconnected and share information (neurotransmitters) with each other. These connections form “neural pathways” which eventually …
September 19, 2023 Wanna blow your mind? Consider this. In every minute of every day in 2022 there were: → 5.9 million Google searches…→ 66,000 photos shared on Instagram…→ 1.7 million pieces of content posted to Facebook…→ $443,000 spent on Amazon…→ 500 hours of video uploaded to YouTube…→ $76,000 of food ordered on DoorDash…→ 104,000 …
September 15, 2023 Stocks have been pretty directionless since the nasty month of August. I’ve mentioned before, September can be just as nasty. And so far it hasn’t disappointed. But once the summer lull is over and traders get back to their desks, what can we expect in the coming months? Are there forces lurking …
Three Stubborn Realities That Still Pose a Threat to the Market Read More »
September 14, 2023 I don’t know if you’re old enough (or geeky enough) to remember Star Trek. I’m talking about the original show back in the 1960s. When William Shatner was the Captain and all the alien women all seemed to wear short skirts. It was a particularly exciting series because space flight had yet …
September 12, 2023 Had enough yet? Enough of the POTUS crowing about how well “Bidenomics” is working, despite what you see with your own eyes? Enough of the Fed explaining how they have no idea where the economy is headed and somehow that’s a good thing? Enough about inflation-skewed, seasonally-adjusted economic reports that paper over …
