To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven… -Ecclesiastes 3:1 Had an investor pulled a “Rip Van Winkle” over the past several months and…

Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple. When there are low interest rates, there is a low gravitational pull-on asset prices. – Warren Buffett Though…

The positions of the Americans is quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one. -Alexis de Tocqueville Chinese startup…

If something cannot last forever, it will end. – Herb Stein; Economist For investors in U.S. equities, November was indeed a month to be thankful for, with the S&P 500…

Time is slow, time is fast. It never stops, but it always lasts. – Anxhelo Llangozi, A Poem About Time The last day of October, Halloween, “spooked” investors in big…

Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. – Norman Cousins After being cast in the role of Santa Claus on September 18th, offering his fellow citizens a reduction…

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future. – Winston Churchill “The flash crash” on the 5th of…

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you in trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. – Mark Twain Perhaps the greatest challenge for investors…

The greater the mismatch between perception and reality, the greater the opportunity. – Mark H. Tekamp “AI Frenzy Propels Stocks to Monster First Half,” read the headline in July 1’s…

“So extraordinary a rise in the market price of Gold in this country…pointed to something in the state of our own domestic currency…” – The Report of the 1810 House…

Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head. –  Albert Einstein CNBC headlined on April 12th, “Dow tumbles 475 points, S&P 500 suffers worst day…

There are three kinds of lies; lies, damned lies and statistics. – Mark Twain; North American Review; 1907 S&P Dow Jones Indices, in its commentary for March 2024, headlined “Despite…

That’s the American Dream, can only be seen behind closed eyes; allowed to touch but can’t touch the prize; that’s the hook, the bait and switch of hand is no…

Remember, the time of year when the future appears; like a blank sheet of paper, a clean calendar, a new chance…  – Jackie Kay, “Promise” A pair of headlines on…