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Fed Rate Cuts Start
How much will growth slow?
September 19, 2025 12:48 PM - Comment(s)
Navigating the Markets & Economy Through the PEST Lens

1. Political

  • Escalating Tariff Tensions & Trade Policy Shockwaves

    The U.S. has impose...
August 12, 2025 01:50 PM - Comment(s)
Is this the Speculation Era?

The Buffett Indicator: A 25-Year Rollercoaster Ride for Market Valuations


In recent years, there has been some concern about the stock market's seemingly high valuations by common fundamental measures, yet it still seems to climb higher.  Rather than debate right or wrong, I thought a deeper div...
June 06, 2025 02:07 PM - Comment(s)
The Soft Stuff Matters

A thought on your portfolio's "total return."  (If you were told there would be no math today, I apologize in advance.) 


Total Return has two parts to it:  appreciation & income.  If  you view owning a stock like you are an...

March 25, 2025 05:38 PM - Comment(s)

In a post dated 4/5/24 titled "The Stubborn Soft Landing", I wrote the following: "A soft landing is - unofficially - when monetary policy makers both slow the pace of economic growth and reduce inflation without causing a recession.  So far, that appears to be the most likely sc...

March 18, 2025 02:24 PM - Comment(s)