Balancing Both Sides: Using Both Sides of your Balance Sheet

Balancing Both Sides: Using Both Sides of your Balance Sheet

BALANCING BOTH SIDES: USING BOTH SIDES OF YOUR BALANCE SHEET Download full commentary here: “Neither a borrower nor a bad credit loan lender be, for…

Surprise! Earnings are good and valuations are better.

Surprise! Fourth quarter results have been reported by roughly 80% of the S&P 500 and so far they are good. With 412 companies reporting (as…

Were our fears inflated?

Were our fears inflated? Nothing like a little play on words to end the week. You might think we are referring to the equity market…

It’s my party and I will cry if I want to…

“It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want too…Cry if I want to….You would cry too if it happened to you!”  You can almost…

The Return to Normal

THE RETURN TO NORMAL Download full commentary here: THE RETURN TO NORMAL With the opening this morning, the S&P 500, and most other major equity…

Is it hot in here, or is it just the bond market?

Is it hot in here, or is it just the bond market?  I remember a time when generating jobs was a good thing.  Apparently, we…

Buy American!

Buy American!  That is the message that President Trump and his economic team are broadcasting at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this week. …

Q1 2018 Quarterly Outlook

In our Q2 2017 Outlook published in April we shared our enthusiasm that after years of sluggish growth and an anemic consumer and business cycle,…

Reading into the breakout a bit too much.

  They are calling it a “breakout” which is hard to say with a straight-face in the context of still secularly low interest rates. That…

Resolving to be worth more than a Continental.

2017 has been a year of significant financial, political, social, and natural events too numerous to recount.  These events caused us to witness both the…