When Giants Collide: Navigating the AI Arms Race in Your Portfolio
Every day in the stock market that goes by marches us deeper into science fiction territory. On Monday tech behemoth Nvidia, maker of semiconductor chips used for AI applications, dropped 17% when news came out that Chinese AI app DeepSeek grabbed the title of top ranked AI app on the Apple iPhone App Store …
Good Debt, Bad Debt, and the Balance Between
There is a 4-letter word in financial services that wreaks havoc and can create a debilitating condition wherever you find it. That word is DEBT. There’s good debt and bad debt. There’s household debt, company debt and government debt. It’s not visible to the naked eye but it’s always there under the surface breaking things apart from the inside out …
Good Vibrations: When One-Tenth of a Percent Moves the Market
Usually, we don’t discuss a single day’s events in the market in these market reports, but this Wednesday, January 15th is hard to ignore. The groovy drum beat thumping out of the New York Stock Exchange might just make you wonder how quickly you can crash the party. I’m picking up the Good Vibrations …
Even Babe Ruth Slumped: Why Market Giants Can’t Always Hit Home Runs
No one is immune to having “one of those days,” or even “one of those months”. Even the greatest baseball players of all time have terrible stretches where they come back to Earth from inhuman streaks of stellar performance. Take Ty Cobb, “The Georgia Peach,” for example, who went 0-for-17 across 5 games in April of 1920 …
2024 in Review: Resilience, Returns, and the Road Ahead
We’ve been through so many challenging events collectively as a fractured country and a warring world in 2024 … Despite all of these challenges, some of which continue to harangue the market, such as foreign wars and especially, the valuation of the market, the market continues to march higher …
From Taxed to Tax-Smart: Turning RMD Pain into Planning Power
As the national debt passed $36 trillion this month, we all need to, as unpleasant as the task is, remind ourselves that taxes are relatively low and one day soon we’ll all have to pay for the many obligations of the Federal government and its over-reaches. For those baby boomers who were sold the concept of the 401(k) in 1978 with The Revenue Act, the bill is coming due …
Eggs, Regulations, and the Crypto Cage Match
Let’s get ready to RUMMMBBBLLLEE!!! If you were disappointed in the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul 8-round snooze-fest last month, there’s great news for you: there’s a title fight coming in late January 2025 …
Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Power, Politics, and Portfolios
Once or twice a generation there is a song released that is truly timeless. They are usually written in the context of current events. What makes them timeless is that the chords they strike are ones that reverberate throughout history, and often repeat themselves …
Buffett’s Big Bet: When Cash Becomes the Smartest Play
We all have people we look up to for guidance and inspiration. Many of us wouldn’t be where we are without a mentor who has guided us on the way or possibly a role model in the industry in which we work that inspired us. So, when that mentor or guide makes a big move to secure the future of his company we tend to pay attention …
Election Clarity: When Uncertainty Ends, Opportunity Begins
There are weeks it’s difficult to read what the market is telling us. There are usually variables all over the place, with some tilting the narrative to a bullish spin while others force us to be more cautious. There is usually difficulty synthesizing the data and determining what, if anything, we should be doing in the market at any given time …
