As early as July of last year, we started addressing the non-stop talk about the looming “recession” that everyone seemed to be calling for. Our opinion was that we were NOT in a recession, and one wasn’t imminent, but we did feel that one was “likely in the next 12-24 months.”
Like tax time, your annual physical, and the (sometimes) annual Family reunion, that pesky debt ceiling drama has come back into the news cycle.
Yes, there is a fun basketball tournament going on as well, but I’m talking about the madness affecting global financial markets of late. Of course, seeing headlines of bank failures is always concerning. There are real implications, as lending standards will...
It is hard to believe we are already in March of 2023! But, since time is going by so quickly, I thought it was a good time to look back at some of our previous blog posts. Why? Well, for one – nothing has changed with our expectations for 2023. But, I also want to...
2022 was the year of the bear (market)! While there were pockets of strength, the overall market was just tough last year. And that goes for bonds as well. Everyone knows this info by now…
As we rapidly approach the end of a frustrating year in the financial markets (and some would say, for humankind in general), it feels like a great time to just remind everyone that historically markets have gone up over time.
As we wrote back in July’s blog “The R Word”, despite media and many economists and financial pundits arguing that we were in a recession, we did not think we were in one.
There is really no parsing words for 2022. It has been a very tough year for investors. As of the end of September, all of the major market indexes are down 20% or greater.
We are all aware at this point that 2022 is shaping up to be a tough one for investors.
As I’ve watched, listened to, and read various financial media outlets over the last few weeks and months, there is an accelerating drumbeat of mentions, predictions, and discussions on the big “R word.”