2018 and older

Holiday shopping this past weekend for the women in my life proved once again to be an eye opening experience. As a caring husband, a devoted son, and the loving father of two daughters, my Christmas shopping is centered on what…

December 14, 2015 Oil prices just keep going down.  This week Brent Crude closed at $37.93 per barrel, down another 12% for the week, and the latest price drop over a longer period.  Brent Crude was $57.33 a barrel at…

December 7, 2015 One of the most exciting times in a big time horse race is when the horses and jockeys are about to enter the starting gate.  Each horse is gently coaxed into its starting stall. Some are easily…

November 30, 2015 One of the roles of The Weekly is to bring new trends in business and society to your attention. We cannot comment on all but a recent trend was brought to light over Thanksgiving by a family…

November 23, 2015 The past two weeks I enjoyed some good old fashioned southern road trips, as I visited clients and looked at some investment opportunities during travels across a five state region. During the lead up to Thanksgiving I…

November 16, 2015 Veterans Day, an important day of remembrance in the US, is finally getting the attention it so long deserved.  I have always thought it has been a day that we did not honor sufficiently, but this year seemed…

 November 9th, 2015 If you are from the South you know that for generations people have given names to inanimate objects like farms and homes. You have all probably seen the TV ad where the woman has named her car…

November 2, 2015  With the rebound in the real estate market, today’s headlines are littered with new transactions.  Large office buildings and shopping centers are all changing hands as billions of dollars’ worth of transactions are being completed.  This made me…

October 26, 2015 We all know that past performance does not guarantee future results but what can we learn from those who have consistently done well in the investment markets over long periods?  Of course the definition of the length…

October 19, 2015  Perhaps some of you are as fascinated as I am with a recent movement based on making things smaller. This way of thinking has been popularized on TV shows which feature “tiny homes”.  The idea of extreme…