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Last Monday in my email, I talked about having more questions than answers about the way forward for the US and global economies. Since that email went out, the week certainly brought up more [...]

Last week, with all that is currently going on, equity markets were fairly flat. The DOW & the S&P 500 were off marginally while the NASDAQ was positive by a little over 2%. The economy [...]

The equity markets took a breather last week with all 3 equity indexes closing lower while the overall economy is showing surprising strength. Meanwhile with congress is in recess (that means [...]

How do you comment on a week like last week and what it might mean for all of us going forward? I normally write the copy for the email on Saturdays and last Saturday, I was writing while a [...]

Last week Jean & I traveled to Memphis to celebrate one of our granddaughter’s graduation from high school, the class of 2020. Tennessee is a little farther ahead with it’s phased in [...]

Jean & I were finally able to go out for dinner last Friday evening and we were able to go to one of our favorite restaurants. When we arrived, the hostess told us we could sit at any table [...]

When you start from zero, the only way to go is up. After the economic consequences of shutting down the economy are becoming a reality, daily and weekly data suggest a recovery might be brewing. [...]

“Nothing can basically stop America”. “The American miracle, the American magic, has always prevailed and it will do so again”. Those are 2 quotes from Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway’s [...]

For the past 2½ months it seems like Captain Kirk and the starship Enterprise have taken over the world and put it at warp 9. Virus spread from Wuhan to US in 6 weeks S&P 500 dropped 34% in [...]

When we get through this… For the last 2 months our lives have been turned inside out and upside down. And now, for those of us living in North Carolina, we face a few more MONTHS of at least [...]