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Financial Perspective: Marry, Cohabitate or Stay Single?

February 22, 2022

People have many different reasons for getting married or not getting married. But for some committed couples, it can come down to a few basic points. One of those is…

Market and Economic Outlook for

February 16, 2022

The last month of 2021 was filled with lots of new information — the new omicron variant of the coronavirus first hit U.S. shores, along with cautions that its level…

The Taxing Landscape of the IRS

February 8, 2022

t seems that millions of taxpayers still have not received their tax refunds from 2020 and even 2019.1 A major reason is due to the defunding of the IRS. Between 2010…

Implications of Omicron

February 1, 2022

The U.S. is in the emergent stages of the omicron variant of the coronavirus. However, we now have some experience in what this could mean moving forward, both for the…

American Conglomerates: Past, Present and Future

January 25, 2022

Conglomerates are parent companies that own a number of large subsidiaries. They became popular back in the 1960s with corporations like ITT, LTV and GE, to name a few. In…

What’s Up With Inflation

January 19, 2022

Inflation was already on the rise before we learned about the omicron variant. Now on top of supply-chain shortages and transportation disruptions, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell recently observed that…

The Investment Greats

January 4, 2022

Not surprisingly, some of the most notable investors in America founded well-known investment companies. For example, John Templeton, whom in 1999 “Money” magazine called “arguably the greatest global stock picker…

The Rise of the Unicorn?

January 3, 2022

This past August, close to 4.3 million Americans quit their jobs — the most ever in just one month (since the government began collecting data two decades ago).1 But there isn’t…

Low Supply Increases Demand

January 3, 2022

Across the board, we’re seeing the capitalist principles of supply and demand both drive and curb U.S. economic activity. As more people have emerged from their hermit-like existence throughout the…