By Sam Taylor | August 13, 2020
Life is full of regrets; it is a part of living.  Some are private known only to us and others are public known to the entire world.  In thinking of some of the more public regrettable trades, a few quickly come to mind – Babe Ruth, Bret Favre, and Manhattan Island. A member of three World Series...
By Sam Taylor | July 9, 2020
Investors entered the second quarter with portfolios battered from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the world’s economies and by extension, financial markets.  Broad-based equities fell 35% or more beginning February 19 as the global lockdown extinguished millions of jobs and with them,...
By Sam Taylor | May 8, 2020
May 8th, 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe and is commonly referred to as V-E Day.  The war would not officially end for another three months when Japan surrendered on August 15th, 1945, now known as V-J Day.  It was the largest, deadliest, and most...
By Miriam Taylor | April 21, 2020
As part of the relief provided by the recently passed CARES Act, the government has suspended required minimum distributions (RMDs) for 2020 – giving up short-term tax revenue in favor of offering much-needed support to retirees.  This provision addresses concerns investors have about being forced...
By Sam Taylor | April 3, 2020
Just as everyone settled in for a long winter’s nap following Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s late 2019 assessment that our economy was in a very good place and could conceivably grow indefinitely, reports of a novel coronavirus outbreak started coming from Wuhan, a city of 11 million people in...
By Sam Taylor | March 25, 2020
On June 18, 1940 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered a speech to the House of Commons.  France had just fallen; Europe lay in tatters and the survival of the civilized world hung in the balance. At that moment, the U.K. stood virtually alone facing Nazi Germany as the Battle of...

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