What I Read This Week
Euro Zone Growth Revised up to Highest Rate in Two Years https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-economy-gdp-idUSKBN18Z13N For [...]
This Could be a Problem
I recently read two stories about the Federal Reserve (the Fed) and its [...]
Department of Labor Fiduciary Rule – UPDATE
A year ago, this newsletter featured a piece about the Department of Labor’s [...]
Achoring Effect
Cognitive Bias – Anchoring Consider these two questions: Was George Washington more than [...]
Q1 Markets and Economic Update
In the first quarter, foreign stocks led the way amongst the indexes herein [...]
Mind your fees and Qs
Mind Your Fees and Qs A story in the Wall Street Journal announced [...]
Tie Yourself to the Mast
I had originally started this as a post about not panicking when one’s [...]
The Folly of Forecasting
It’s that time of year when Wall Street folks trot out their annual [...]
Q4 Markets and Economic Update
While it is easy to dismiss the Q4 move in the stockmarkets as [...]
Confirmation Bias
This might be one of the easier behavioral shortcomings to detect. [...]