26 Oct 2018

Posted at 15:54h in The Friday Brief by

[caption id="attachment_9886" align="alignright" width="284"] *An impressive collection of mailings generated for one Charles Schwab account in one day![/caption] Lofty expectations for corporate earnings have combined with rising interest rates and increased global trade tensions to bring volatility back to the stock market after a long hiatus. ...

19 Oct 2018

Posted at 12:14h in The Friday Brief by

When my son Charlie came home from the NICU in February and was going to doctors appointments with some frequency, one of the things that came up was that he, like many newborns, had a case of torticollis. Torticollis is basically the tendency for a...

12 Oct 2018

Posted at 11:08h in The Friday Brief by

The last ten years of fair-weather markets have spoiled us a bit, but storms do come, and they can be ferocious. Just as Hurricane Michael came out of nowhere, so did a stock-selling spree that shaved more than 5% from the S&P 500. We are...