About a year ago at this time, we were all waiting for what would turn out to be the first interest rate increase by the FOMC in nearly 9 years. Once that increase finally arrived at the end of 2015, we were all preparing for what we were led to believe would be a series…
If you’re a fan of “American Exceptionalism” and can put aside the fact that the Shanghai stock market has made daily moves of 6% higher in the past few months on more than one occasion, you have to believe that the past week has truly been a sign of the United States’ supremacy extending to…
Somewhere buried deep in my basement is a 40 year old copy of the medical school textbook “Rapid Interpretation of EKG’s.” After a recent bout wearing a Holter Monitor that picked up 3000 “premature ventricular contractions” I wasn’t the slightest bit interested in finding and dusting off that copy to refresh my memory, not having…
This week started on such a positive note with the reassuring words of a dove, yet ended so harshly. This time of the year it’s supposed to be the other way around with the lamb having the final word as months of a less threatening nature await ahead. Instead, after Friday’s close, whatever optimism may have been generated…
This is the time of year that one can start having regrets about the way in which votes were cast in prior elections. Season’s Misgivings The sad likelihood, however, is that officials elected through the good graces of incredibly gerrymandered districts are not likely to ever believe that their homogeneous and single minded neighbors represent…