Dear Reader, Despite a decidedly green January, the wall of worry in the U.S. stock market is getting harder to climb with each passing day. The age-old strategy of buying and holding an index fund simply won’t cut it anymore – stock picking is the only path forward,...
When watchdog group Truth in Accounting publishes their annual Financial State of the Cities, few expect anything less than an utterly scathing account of America’s localized debt crisis. The most recent report, however, paints a particularly bleak picture – and backs...
Dear Reader, If you’ve tried to drive through Los Angeles and get out into the suburbs at 5:00 in the early evening, you would quickly come to realize that infrastructure is maxed out and decades behind. Freeways that have 65 mile an hour speed limits, look like...
For investors hoping for some holiday cheer heading into Christmas, Wall Street had other ideas. With the devastating losses adding to an already sour outlook for the broader financial sector, we can no longer deny the obvious: we are in a bear market. Typically,...
“It’s all controlled by algos…” “Computers move the markets nowadays…” You hear statements like that all the time on social media, especially when large-volume, sudden moves happen in the stock market. But now it’s more than just your Average Joes saying...