Originally Published on January 4, 2022 Equity investors have become conditioned to gains. The post 2008 experience has embedded the idea that investing = gains. This may be true over longer periods, but we have become spoiled. The warning consistently given is to “buckle up” as downswings from the recent run up are likely. In addition to securing your emotional seatbelt, here are a few other coping mechanisms for the corrections that may arrive soon: Long walks Cycling Water

Originally Published on October 5, 2021 Hopes for a fade of the Covid-19 virus are rising. As vaccination rates increase and the Delta variant burns itself out, we may be able to see light in the tunnel. Markets are getting volatile as the steroids (zero interest rates and $120b of dollars added to the financial system monthly) of the Federal Reserve are being slowly reduced. The economic consequences of the pandemic would have been much worse without the financial doctoring

Originally Published on July 2, 2021 “The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts …. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher—in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular, in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future. No part of man’s nature or his institutions mus

Originally Published on March 31, 2021 I can prove anything I’ll make you admit again and again That I can prove anything The way that it’s read again and again… We are the angry mob We read the papers everyday We like who we like, we hate who we hate But we’re also easily swayed “The Angry Mob” lyrics, by artist Kaiser Chiefs; Release date 8-20-2007 January 6, 2021 was an event that brought historic violence. The angry mob was as busy posting selfies, a blessing that likely