Over the past few weeks many popular magazines have featured articles regarding the stock market. The apparent goal of these articles is to explain the dynamics that are supporting the market’s powerful bull-run, which has been in effect since the early nineties. America’s stock market has already gained another 15% this year, putting the total […]
I recently had a conversation with a new client who expressed some concern about the ongoing presidential calumny, and their possible negative impacts on the financial markets and our economy in general. His fear, which is supported and fed by the ongoing media circus revolving around the scandals, I assured him, was unwarranted. Our discussion […]
On December 29, the Chinese government took drastic measures to rid themselves of the Asian flu. The threat posed by the highly contagious strain, originating in chickens, warranted the precautionary slaughter of over two million chickens. All reports since, claim that there have been no further outbreaks, although some lucky chickens did manage to escape […]
Monday, October 27th, was a day that brought bad tidings from the financial front but more personally, it was the early morning phone call I received from my mother that was most devastating. My grandfather had passed away suddenly, from pneumonia, at the age of 90. At the office, we were inundated with calls from […]