Seen And Not Heard
Life was different when I was a child. Back
then families were larger…
Life was different when I was a child. Back
then families were larger…
Gifting without expectations is the surest way to feel fulfilled…
The financial services industry is spending billions of dollars per year trying to convince Americans that retirement is a great idea worth pursuing. In fact, their basic premise is that the sooner you retire, the better. But for whom? We certainly know that the sooner the financial services industry gets their hands on your money,… Read more »
A presidential inauguration is a time of both reflection and hope. We assess where we have come from over the past four years, and hope to define what we may be able to accomplish over the next four. In America power is shared; therefore, use of the word “we” is more than symbolic. During… Read more »
The last time I recall this degree of blanket media coverage in anticipation of a potential calamity was the Y2K scare just prior to the change in the millennium. There was of course much consternation among our fellow citizens that somehow, some way, all of our computers would shut down because their internal date clocks… Read more »
During the summer of a presidential election cycle it is not uncommon for polling organizations to take the pulse of the American public on a variety of cultural and economic issues. Each party then tries to spin the polling results to the benefit of their presidential candidate. What is peculiar is that the results… Read more »
Our perception of matters is often defined by context. If we tend to be having a fairly good run of things, as the equity markets did during the 1980’s and ‘90’s, our perception of markets tends to be positive. When we look at markets over the past ten years, most people view them as destroyers… Read more »