As anybody who pays remote attention to the financial news media knows, the S&P 500 achieved an all-time high value last week, again, after nearly eight months since the last high was achieved. These are monumental days for the media and pundits because they stoke conversations and pontificating about market peaks, market crashes, market valuations …
Month: September 2018
News Fast
Detox I recently completed a two week news fast in which I did everything I could to avoid the news, especially financial news. It was obviously very challenging but in the end was quite rewarding and liberating. Prior to the fast, I found myself feeling incredibly bogged down by politics and financial punditry. While I …
Labor Force Participation
The Great Financial Crisis (GFC) has been blamed for many things over the past 10 years. Narratives have been created that appeal to our desire for a specific cause to what ails our economy, financial system and income growth rates. The cause for many of these observed effects can really only be known in hindsight, …