Equities Tantrum At (long anticipated) Interest Rate Paradigm (actually) Shift(ing)?
For almost a year, the capital markets have been expecting a scaling-back of the Fed’s open market purchases of treasury bonds and...
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Josh Rigden
- Sep 23, 2021
- 3 min
The Stock Market is Drunk and Doesn’t Know It
As soon as September kicked off, glass-half-empty-market historians were preaching caution because September has statistically been the...
Josh Rigden
- Aug 26, 2021
- 2 min
As Stock Markets Peak, Check Your Emotions
Emotions often drive investors to make poor decisions and underperform Successful investing and overall fitness both often come down to...
Josh Rigden
- Aug 5, 2021
- 1 min
Are You Itching for an Earlier-Than-Expected Retirement?
If you’re like many people, the pandemic has had a profound impact on your worldview. The tragedy and social isolation we’ve experienced...
Josh Rigden
- Jul 1, 2021
- 3 min
Inflation Varies According to Your Age & Spending
What will inflation be in the coming years? The real answer is that it varies according to your age and spending patterns. Inflation...
Josh Rigden
- Jun 29, 2021
- 3 min
Assessing Portfolio Risk
Most investors know that they should evaluate their risk tolerance when considering an investment. Oftentimes, investors think of risk...
Josh Rigden
- Jun 17, 2021
- 4 min
Is Your New House a Fantastic Investment?
Housing is rarely the best use of your money from an investment viewpoint Despite continued low mortgage rates and tales of bidding wars,...
Josh Rigden
- May 27, 2021
- 4 min
Why the inflation rate doesn’t tell the whole story
Markets, economists and policymakers have been fretting about inflation for months, worried that the trillions of dollars being spent...
Josh Rigden
- May 20, 2021
- 6 min
Biden Policies to Impact Stock Markets
While presidential policies matter, policies never move markets uniformly Will the policies of the Biden Administration have a negative...
Josh Rigden
- May 6, 2021
- 4 min
“Sell in May and Go Away” is Dumb, Dumb, Dumb
Why employ an investing strategy that is based on a summer horse race? One of the oldest stock market strategies is to “Sell in May and...
Bryce Johnson
- Mar 26, 2021
- 2 min
When Rates Begin To Rise, Active Management Is Paramount
Passive investing is perhaps the best driver of value when it comes to growing your money over time. Buy a low cost index fund and the...
Josh Rigden
- Feb 16, 2021
- 2 min
Think Investing Is a Game? Stop.
It’s easy to view the stories of market speculation that have dominated the news recently as cautionary tales for individual investors....
Bryce Johnson
- Feb 10, 2021
- 2 min
"GameStop" Instills Confidence in the Proper Functioning Of Public Markets. Not the Other Way Around
By now, you, your parents, your children and your neighbors all know what "shorting" a stock is. I've lost count of how many iterations...
Bryce Johnson
- Jan 20, 2021
- 1 min
The Political Pendulum Swings, but the Economy Does Its Own Thing
Kenneth G. Pringle Barrons.com January 20, 2021 An important reminder that media headlines and political catch phrase messaging do not,...
Bryce Johnson
- Jul 21, 2020
- 1 min
Growth Over Value Continues
What's been a decade-long trend, its happening in 2020 is somewhat unique The growth sector is rounding out ten years of massively...
Josh Rigden
- Apr 6, 2020
- 3 min
State of the Economy
Massive Spike in Unemployment Last week, headlines worldwide screamed that the unemployment rate was the highest level in history, as...
Josh Rigden
- Apr 2, 2020
- 4 min
What Do You Really Know About Bear Markets?
The Coronavirus Bear kicked the 11-year bull off of Wall Street very fast A “bear market” occurs when stock prices in general are...
Bryce Johnson
- Aug 14, 2019
- 1 min
Investor Emotions Again Leading To Value Degradation
A March 4, 2019 article from Yahoo Finance said that most investors missed the 2019 market ride up from the end-of-December lows....