Not much is happening in the markets worth writing about. No news is good news I suppose, but there is one bit of entertainment happening which may be a learning moment. As the golf world readies itself for the U.S. Open Championship one of the PGA Tour’s biggest stars, Phil Mickelson, is under investigation for…
I know that everyone does not think like I do, but somehow I am always surprised by how so many people just do not get math. For thirteen years I drove the same car. It was a great car and I loved it. Nothing lasts forever though, and I finally had to replace the vehicle….
It has been a while since we sent out our last Insight, because there really has not been much of note in the investing world. That is not true of world events lately but we are not here to pontificate on everything, only those things that impact your investment portfolios. Sometimes, however, something happens that…
We start this week with the realization that we now live in what George Friedman, PhD., founder and chairman of Strafor Global Intelligence, calls the “Post-Post-Cold War World.” He freely admits it is a poor name, but it is the only one he has at the moment. The “Post-Cold War World” was a world dominated…
We live in a celebrity-obsessed culture. In case you didn’t know it, Peyton Manning lost the Super Bowl. I thought that was a forgone conclusion because, based on the media hype beforehand, the game was Peyton Manning against the entire Seattle Seahawks defense. When I turned on the game I discovered that there were in…
