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No reason for market panic or even concern

No reason for market panic or even concern

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin once said “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” I hadn’t thought a communist could ever provide a context for the capitalist stock market but old […]

Out of clutter, find simplicity

Out of clutter, find simplicity

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein The stock market’s dramatic decline of Monday August 24th, 2015 (with the Dow closing down 588 points […]

More Market Thoughts

More Market Thoughts

I wanted to add a couple thoughts to what I wrote in my market letter last week about the current market moving, in case you still had concerns. Last weekend, financial blogger Ben Carlson pointed […]

Are We Correcting?

Are We Correcting?

For 138 straight trading days, we’ve had dull and boring markets, with the S&P 500 having closed between 2,040 and 2,130 over that time. This had been one of the longest and tightest trading ranges […]

The markets and the Fed

The markets and the Fed

It’s August and the market is sideways. Given that the Fed, Congress and most traders are on vacation – together with the fact that most earnings and economic reports of note have been published – […]