By: Nathan Twining
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Another day, another crisis of leadership in our government. Fears of a looming government shutdown might have you wondering if it’s…
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Like many of you, this week I watched in horror and shock as Russia invaded Ukraine. Years of rhetoric and posturing…
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Updated February 2, 2022 It’s been nearly two years since the economic impacts of Covid-19 and subsequent containment protocols first began…
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By now, most of us have heard plenty about the frenzy going on around GameStop (ticker GME), a brick-and-mortar video game…
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If you’ve been paying attention to investment news, you might be aware of the recent consternation that the “yield curve” in…
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Expectations are powerful things. They involuntarily override our logic and amplify our emotional response to events based on how those events…
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Why is the stock market volatile? It’s a question that many of us have pondered at one time or another, especially…
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If you are going to invest in the stock market for any meaningful amount of time, you will at some point…
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In the latest edition of The Plan, Jamie mentioned the 4% rule of thumb for withdrawal rates. To delve a bit…
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No financial planner can know what the future will bring, and none should pretend to. Markets, stock prices and ultimately return…
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If you’ve been with us long enough, you know that we value efficient diversification on a very large scale. True diversification decreases…
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Forefront in many of our minds lately has been the looming “Fiscal Cliff.” Over the past few months we’ve received a…
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Once again, the S.E.C. proposal to hold all brokers to a fiduciary standard has run aground. This from a September article…
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