If you are a Minnesota stock market investor now, you have the first part of market timing already done. Just about every stock or stock mutual fund that you have owned over the last couple of years is up. If you own a stock market investment that is not up, you...
Most New Year 2014 resolutions include a commitment to change your past investment management behavior. This year the best guide on how to make those changes is to follow the favorite local football team. The Minnesota Vikings are in the process of “rebalancing” their...
Many Wall Street and economic pundits tried to talk down the U.S. stock markets down in early 2013. They stated a long list of economic and political headwinds for the U.S. economy. Many of those concerns have come to pass. Interest rates have moved higher....
We are in a historic time period of uncertainty around the world. If David Letterman made a Top Ten list of the “Biggest Things To Be Worried About,” the upcoming Fiscal Cliff in the U.S. would surely make the list. Minnesota stock market investors hear time and...
In Minnesota, we stick by our local companies. That is the Minnesotan thing to do. Our parents—mostly Minnesotans themselves—taught us that way of thinking. We shop at Target, by 3M Post-it notes, and load up on General Mills and Hormel products at Super Value. And...