Student Loan Update
If you have children or grandchildren who qualify for student loan forgiveness, there’s good news and bad news. The bad news is that the forgiveness effort has been temporarily blocked … Read More
I Retired During the Pandemic. Now Inflation Has Me Counting Pennies
One year into the pandemic lockdown, I retired from my job of 14 years as program coordinator and academic adviser at the University of New Mexico’s School of Engineering. I … Read More
Rewarding Recklessness: Teaching Young Investors to Take Serious Risks
Drivers’ education has to be, hands down, the most boring class in high school. In home economics (if they still have it) you get to experiment with fun desserts. … Read More
If They Can Predict the Weather, Why Not the Stock Market?
Humans have always had a strong desire to know the future. Soon after writing was developed in ancient Mesopotamia the Babylonians began using it to catalog thousands of auguries—observances of … Read More
FAANGs Gone Value
Wes Crill, PhD Head of Investment Strategists and Vice President One of the more vocal arguments against value investing stems from a belief that we’re in a “new normal” environment … Read More
Encouraging Jobs Report
If the U.S. economy is in recession, it sure is a peculiar one. The most recent jobs report, for June, showed an increase of 372,000 people employed in America, and … Read More
The Big New Bill
Just when you thought Congress couldn’t get anything done, Congress passed an enormous piece of legislation that touches just about every aspect of American lives. The full extent of the … Read More
The Difference Between a Forecast, a Wish, and a Worry
When I was growing up, our local newspaper, the Kansas City Star, was full of news and had one page for opinion. After decades of cable news and nonstop digital … Read More
Recession Report
Many times, consumers and the person-on-the-street recognizes that the U.S. economy has entered a recession long before the economists get around to declaring it. That appears to be the case … Read More