Continued from last week to wrap up “Top 10 of 2017.” Thanks for your great responses that helped to illuminate several of the following…
Month: December 2017
Top 10 of 2017
Back by popular demand is the Year-End wrap up! Some of these affected our portfolios and others made our lives better…or at least made us smile for a few days.
Last year, 2016, gave us a year of historic market highs, mind-blowing political events (remember Brexit?) and epic sports achievements. This year, 2017, gave us more historic market highs, more epic sports achievements and, yes, more mind-blowing political events. And ever more. Read on….
Top 10 – Part One. Perhaps you may be moved to remind me of a couple of your personal gems to round out Part Two next week. Continue reading “Top 10 of 2017”
Even A Blind Squirrel…
Are you familiar with the saying, “Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while”?
The year of 2017 (and every year since 2009) in the stock markets could fall under this category – and prove dangerous to those not recognizing or admitting this reality. In other words when the S&P 500, the index of the largest and most recognizable companies in America, rises every year (including dividends) for 9 years in a row (and was up over 13.5% in 6 out of those 9 years) we have been given a slightly false sense of security that investing is easy.
10 Things NOT Talked About at Thanksgiving
We all know the “Basic 3” topics NOT recommended for talk around the Thanksgiving table: Sex, Politics and Religion. Two others on the list are Money and various Family Matters. The gloves can tend to come off, feelings hurt and more.
But there are times when several of these topics must be addressed – keeping in mind that “there is a time and place for everything”. So, in that vein, here is a list of at least 10 topics that were most likely NOT discussed at Thanksgiving but that may be important and remain on lots of peoples’ minds: Continue reading “10 Things NOT Talked About at Thanksgiving”