I have a son who will be a senior in high school in September. He has been told that he is a pretty good football player. He was invited to several college football tryout camps this summer. June and July each year are the most important college football camp months...
In my Golden Valley Minnesota patch blog posts, I always try to write original content. But I don’t think that I can write a better retirement planning article than Jeff Sommer recently wrote in the New York Times. I think that this article is very much worth the...
The Dow Jones Industrials and the S&P 500 are back trading at all-time high price levels again. Stock market investors should be very happy that the summer of 2013 has not included any investment pain and angst. But like the Minnesota summer, the current stock...
Am I the only stock market investor in Minnesota who thinks this way? All you ever hear on CNBC is trade, trade, trade. The same reaction to any economic or company news is to “do something.” Most individual investors don’t care about the daily economic, political,...
I have a daughter that turned 16-years old in mid June. The day of her 16th birthday found the two of us in line at the Plymouth Driver and Vehicle Services office. She passed her Road Test. Her Minnesota Driver’s License is in the mail. My car insurance rate...
That cracking sound that you heard over the last two months may have come from one of our recent summer thunder storms. Or it could be the breaking of the retirement plan nest eggs of many Minnesota company retirement plan participants. Bond mutual funds have always...
