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Several clients have contacted us asking if this is a time to reduce risk or maybe even sell 100% of their account and go to cash. Although no one can predict how this virus will play out on world economies, […]
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Epidemic Levels
Last week many major airlines canceled trips to China along with many US companies closing their offices in China. In a country with a population of 1.386 billion, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the coronavirus has reached epidemic […]
Secret Order of the AP
I’ve said for years that one of many requests I have when getting to heaven is to meet the members of the three-person committee of the Secret Order of Associated Press (SOAP). What I have surmised are the members are […]
All Good At Home
On Wednesday, July 31, the Federal Reserve lowered the discount rate charged to financial institutions by 25 basis points (0.25%) making this the first rate cut in eighteen months. On Thursday, President Trump announced the intent to impose a 10% […]
The One Thing
As with almost every complex design, there is just one thing that can either enable its brilliance or instantly cease its functionality entirely. For instance, an intricately designed mainframe computer with billions of programmed lines of code and exclusive hardware […]
Pascal’s Marble Run and Moscow’s Only Elephant
One winter night during one of the many German air raids on Moscow during WWII, a distinguished Soviet professor of statistics showed up in his local air-raid shelter. He had never appeared there before. ‘There are seven million people in […]
Your Old Portfolio Is Broken
The most challenging aspect of investing is matching one’s expectations with actual performance. With a standard hope to earn the long-term market average, diversified investors are in for a big surprise. Since 1927, the S&P 500 index has averaged a […]
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