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Quarterly Insights: April 2024

The U.S. economy’s resilience to high interest rates continued in the first quarter of 2024. Despite widespread expectations for an economic downturn, 2023 ended on a high note, with 3.2% growth in th...
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Faith Seeking Understanding

When in bear markets, like we are now, clients often ask us how we can keep our heads when it appears the world is coming apart. What knowledge do we ...
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Markets and Current Events - May 2022

The financial markets have exhibited higher than usual price volatility thus far in 2022. Daily swings in the stock market of over 1% have been freque...
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Markets and Current Events

The economic and financial market backdrops are changing, and the news headlines have been quite disconcerting. After averaging gains of 20% for the p...
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Long Day’s Journey into Night

Two features define the current economic and financial market backdrop. The first and most obvious is the significant increase in government involveme...
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Stay Calm and Carry On

The current financial market panic is unprecedented – just as all preceding panics were unprecedented. Yet, during times of panic, malfunctioning mark...
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Was the Fourth Quarter Really Just a Glitch?

It has been reported that 90% of asset classes suffered losses in 2018. There were few places to hide, even for well-diversified investors. As we will...
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Believe So That You May Understand

Stock market investors have experienced quite a volatile ride over the last two decades. As measured by the S&P 500 Index, the stock market tripled fr...
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Radical Uncertainty

Human beings crave certainty, and our clients are no different in this need. As investment counselors, we understand that no one can know the future a...
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It is Time

We live in an increasingly connected world. Many investors find it increasingly difficult to differentiate between the signal and the noise.
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Scared Money Can’t Win

With recent optimistic news about the job market, record highs on Wall Street, and having stepped back from at least two ledges of the fiscal cliff th...
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