The Warm Blanket of More Data
Reading Time: < 1 minute There’s nothing like wrapping yourself in the warm blanket of more data. Did you know you could create your own dashboard on Fred, the economic […]
Family Adventure: Zion & Capitol Reef National Park
Reading Time: 3 minutes We made a trip south this Fall to Zion and Capitol Reef National Parks. This completes our tour of the five national parks in Utah. […]
Influential Reads – October 2023
Reading Time: 2 minutes “Our obsession with being informed makes it hard to think long-term. We spend hours consuming news because we want to be informed. The problem is, […]
Hold To Maturity – A Fuzzy Framework for Fixed Income Investing
Reading Time: 3 minutes I have been seeing quite a few articles about the decline in bond prices and the bond bear market. These are excellent headlines, but appear […]
Surging Bond Yields with Downtown Josh Brown
Reading Time: 2 minutes This was so good on so many levels. Catch me on Scott Galloway’s show Long End of the Curve + Velocity: 28:11 An absolutely great […]
The World of Low Rate Mortgages
Reading Time: 3 minutes File this under things I don’t understand. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve lowered short term interest rates and rates across longer maturities followed […]
Bears Watching: 30 Year Mortgage Rates
Reading Time: < 1 minute The trend is your friend…. Max: 18.63% on October 9, 1981 Min: 2.65% on January 7, 2021 Source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US/
Influential Reads – September 2023
Reading Time: 3 minutes “One of the most important parts of developing an identity that can thrive, persist, and endure change is to diversify your sense of self. You […]
Influential Reads – August 2023
Reading Time: 2 minutes “If you simply do what everyone else has already done, you will be rewarded with the same mediocre results everyone else has already gotten. The […]
Family Adventure: Colombia
Reading Time: 5 minutes We had an excellent trip to Colombia. I realize that Colombia is probably not the first country folks would consider visiting when going to South […]