Originally Published January 8, 2012 Perspective The market has posted a positive quarter. Autum 2011 was another volatile period marked buy a fixation on Europe and the seemingly unending problems of the inflexible Euro currency. For the Year 2011 markets in the US finished nearly even, but global investments have suffered. Massive flows of assets continued to pour into bonds. Interest rates are near all time lows. Pervasive Negativity Since the bottom of the market in March

Originally published on October 7, 2011 Perspective The market has posted a significantly negative quarter. The summer produced a political spectacle in Washington, D.C.  An extremely divisive debate regarding an increase to the debt ceiling produced a demonstration of the dramatic dysfunction of the US Federal Government in it’s current state. The markets spent the summer in an increasingly volatile pattern. The dramatic swings have been a reflection of the lack of confiden