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I normally built this weekly email on the Saturday before it goes out on the following Monday. I try not to get started until all the news of the week has happened. So, Friday night Jean & I [...]

There has been a whole lot of noise from the talking heads about a recession turning into a depression for the United States. The August jobs report reveals a labor market and economy that [...]

Last week was really a full week for news. The conventions to nominate candidates for President and Vice President have come and gone. There was another police incident in Kenosha, WI that [...]

As if it ever ends. Mercifully, the democrat national nominating convention ended Thursday night with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris accepting their party’s nomination to be candidates for President [...]

Congress has decided that, since they have worked so hard since their last recess over the July 4 holiday, they’ve gone home until sometime in September. I guess it’s good work if you can get it. [...]

Well, the news coming out of Washington took on a surreal moment this week when I heard Nancy Pelosi say, “I’ll cut you a trillion if you raise a trillion”. It sounded like a poker game but with [...]

With Jean out of town for the weekend, I had dinner with a couple of long-time friends Friday night. We hadn’t seen each other in quite some time so it was good to catch up, laugh, and just plain [...]

In the movie, “Back to the Future”, Marty McFly found himself back in time where his future parents were still in high school. The rest of the movie was spent trying to get Marty “back to the [...]

Congress is headed back to Washington and there is a great expectation that another stimulus package is on the way. So the question becomes “How large will the bill be and how much more debt will [...]

Another week goes by in our quest to find out what our new normal might eventually look like. (If that’s even possible.) As far as the equity markets are concerned, it was a pretty choppy week. [...]