Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. – Alexis de Tocqueville We spend an inordinate amount of time planning. We plan our vacations; we plan our Seder meal, and make plans with friends. We plan plan plan. What de […]
So I got the ‘memo’ from my wife that we are starting Passover cleaning tomorrow and I need to clean up the bedroom. I am not into wearing gloves when I clean, as I measure success in cleaning by the number of cuts and scratches on my hands and not necessary actual cleanliness! While having […]
Have you been to a restaurant lately? If so did you notice that the overwhelming majority of couples barely spoke a word to each other? When they weren’t eating they were sitting, with their heads down, thoroughly engrossed in whatever they saw on their smartphone. Not all of us men are big on the ‘communication […]
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/three-ways-to-calm-investors-churning-stomachs-2016-03-01?link=MW_RM With investors very nervous over the recent action in financial markets, I have been getting numerous calls from clients asking what they can do in order to smooth out the volatility. My first answer is to buy a bottle of Rolaids or Tums, and start popping a few of them every time you get […]
It’s Super Bowl Weekend. After nearly two weeks of incessant hype, in a few days the big game will be played. So what are you waiting for? Place your bets now on sites like bro138. This year’s big story is whether this will be the last game ever played by football legend Peyton Manning. It […]
Global stock markets are selling off quickly. The price of oil is heading to$20 a barrel. A wave of energy company debt defaults is around the corner. Chinese growth has stalled. A few European banks have called on investors to sell everything except for government bonds. 2016 will make the subprime crisis of ’08 […]
It’s hard enough to deal with the loss of a spouse on an emotional level. For many widows/ers though, their new financial reality can be even more intimidating. Even after losing parents, asset management is important even if you will not be in a mental state to do it. However, with the help of lawyers […]
One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress. – Daniel Kahneman, “Here we go again” North Korean nuclear test, a quickly slowing Chinese economy, Apple stock plummeting after iPhone production cut, rising […]
Market pundits including yours truly, have been talking about the Federal Reserve raising interest rates for what seems like an eternity. With rates at record low levels, it makes sense that the only direction they can go is higher. The question is not only when they will start to rise, but how investors should position […]
