When we as financial advisors talk with investors about the virtues of diversification, asset allocation, and long-term investing, a question that often comes up is, “What about real estate? Should I buy an investment property?” In fact, the issue of real estate tends to divide investors into camps almost like [...]
Despite a rough year on the markets and increasing concern about the effects of an ongoing trade war, 2018 was yet another good year for the US economy, with GDP up an estimated 3.1% for the year. But can the good times keep up or is this just a positive [...]
By Colby Davis, CFA I should have known better. After a banner year for markets in 2017, I declared at the start of this year that everything keeps getting better. But fate is a spiteful mistress, who does not abide mere mortals telling her how to behave. And so, as [...]
In my last post I dispelled the notion of technological unemployment - despite all the hype, it simply can't be the case that automation is reducing the need for human labor because if it were then we would see a negative correlation between wage growth and GDP growth. In fact, [...]
Certainly you've heard the news by now: inequality is rising, the middle class is being hollowed out, wages are stagnant, fueling populist backlashes from both the right and left around the world, giving rise to our current moment of rising political partisanship and falling social trust. And in the background [...]
