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No More Legislative News is Good News - Kill the Bill(s)

No bad (2,500 page) legislation getting passed this week in Congress is great news for America’s economic future. From what I’ve been able to study and read, there were so many tax increases, pork spending plans, and entitlement expansion…

How Risky are Your Bonds?

Bond prices go up and down every day just like stock prices, but for different reasons. It is important to understand that bond prices move inversely to interest rates. In other words, if interest rates go up on bonds or bond funds like the…

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Why I Prefer Stocks to Bonds

For the past 30 years, interest rates have been moving down and bond prices have been going up. Now, interest rates are at a level when the best case is they "stay flat" as there is not much room to go any lower. With the low-interest rates…

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Stock Market Roars Up - Use Logic Rather Than Emotion

The U.S. stock market just had a terrific first quarter. The S&P 500 index was up 10.0% over the past three months. My client portfolios were not up that much because they also own many other investment asset classes that didn't advance…