Casual economic and stock market watchers are going to read and hear a great deal about the current U.S. government shutdown and the debt ceiling debate over the next week. I thought that it might to summarize some of the most important items involved in the...
I have been blogging my concerns about the current stock market environment for the last several weeks. If you read similar content from me before, I apologize. If you are reading about my concerns here for the first time, I hope I can make you think about what you...
There is nothing like the month of October to grab the investment management attention of Minnesota stock market investors. So far, 2013 has been a dull and boring straight up ride on the popular stock market averages. I think that October is going to require stock...
The U.S. Government may be forced to shut down some time this morning. In Minnesota, we have a history of similar government shutdowns. On midnight, July 1, 2011, the State of Minnesota shut down. All state government spending and operations stopped. All state...
I have met with several individual Minnesota company 401(k) retirement plan participants in the last two weeks. I ran into the diversification monster in each meeting. Diversification has been widely sold to individual investors. Investment advisors and financial...
It’s official. My daughter does not like one of her teachers this fall. She is distressed that she has to sit in class with this teacher each school day until the end of the semester. Every student has a story about a teacher that they did not like. In my daughter’s...
