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Common Cents & The Next Correction

Presumably due to the stock market’s strong performance during these bizarre times, people have increasingly been asking me when ‘we’ are going to have a correction. After all, the market can’t just keep going up forever,…

Understanding Conservatorships

Written By: Mac Frasier Director of Planning, Advisory Services   As shocking as this maybe I would not consider myself to be someone who is up to date with the latest happenings in pop culture.    However,…

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Common Cents & Getting Back to Work

This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released “The Employment Situation – July 2021.” I won’t mince words, it was a good report, and better than many were expecting after the somewhat disappointing ADP Employment…

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Common Cents & The Delta Variant

On this week’s Trading Perspectives podcast, Sam Clement and I discussed the recent upsurge in COVID-19 cases due to the Delta Variant. Would this lead to another shutdown of local economies and schools? Usher in new…

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Common Cents & This Ain’t Japan

Unless you really follow the markets, and I mean really follow them, you might have missed the relatively sharp drop in longer-term interest rates over the last couple of months, especially for US Treasury securities. This…

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Common Cents & Exceptionalism

On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, adopted the Declaration of Independence. This document explained why the 13 American colonies were struggling against the British Crown, and why they considered themselves no…

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Common Cents & Stressing Out

This past week, I made several economic presentations. During the Q&A period after one of them, a person asked if I remembered a prediction I made at a presentation on the same day the first case…