by Lori Eason | Nov 19, 2019 | Financial Planning
When it comes to retirement planning, almost everyone knows that turning 65 is an important milestone. At 50, you are awarded the opportunity to join AARP and for the next decade, various senior discounts kick in. But for many, the milestone with the greatest...
by Lori Eason | Sep 19, 2019 | Quarterly Commentary
For those of us that pay close attention to the central bank’s policies and the expert’s interpretation of those policies, you’d think that a global recession is certain and just around the corner. Most notably, there’s been a lot of focus on the relationship between...
by Lori Eason | Jun 19, 2019 | Quarterly Commentary
In normal times, which we haven’t seen in over a decade, the markets would look at unemployment solidly under 4%, GDP above 3% and inflation around 2% and think the Federal Reserve is surely leaning towards a neutral or maybe even tighter monetary policy. After all,...
by Lori Eason | Mar 19, 2019 | Quarterly Commentary
One of the more comical images is the crowd at a tennis match; hundreds of people swinging their heads in perfect unison for hours. Synchronized swimming has never been this coordinated. This image comes to mind when I watch the daily financial news on TV. The pundits...
by Lori Eason | Dec 18, 2018 | Quarterly Commentary
In our last newsletter titled “The Christmas Bear”, we outlined the issues that we felt were driving the high levels of volatility in the stock market recently and shared our thoughts on how those may play out in 2019. That was only three weeks ago and now we’ve had...
