Debt Ceiling Circus
It’s not easy for a financial professional to avoid feeling at least mild annoyance at the politics of raising (or not) the debt ceiling, because the whole discussion seems … Read More
Markets Don’t Wait for Official Announcements
Some investors may worry about the stock market sinking after a recession is officially announced. But history shows that markets incorporate expectations ahead of economic reports. • The global financial … Read More
The Risk in IPOs
The best time to buy a company’s stock is when you can get in on the ground floor, at the initial public offering. Right? Wrong. Very wrong. A research paper … Read More
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