2019
October 14, 2019 Early this month Charles Schwab & Co. announced that they would be changing their pricing model for equity trade commissions to $0 per trade. Schwab’s move was soon followed by competitors, including TD Ameritrade and E*Trade. Fidelity…
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October 7, 2019 Recession hunters and storm chasers have lately been putting a cloud over the markets. The chatter from the bears keeps getting louder and louder. The recent see-saw pattern of the stock market continued last week. The first…
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September 30, 2019 Wouldn’t it be nice if we knew in advance what the stock market was going to do tomorrow? Imagine how fun it would be to buy before the market goes up and then sell before the market…
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I bet most of you did not think twice about getting your driver’s license when you turned sixteen. No doubt some of you even applied on your sixteenth birthday! Research published by University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute, that studied the proportion…
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September 16, 2019 I grew up in a small town in Mississippi. I have been fortunate in my career to have worked with people from all over the world, and like many of you, I have learned at lot from…
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September 9, 2019 Although I was raised in the UK I have been very slow to appreciate how the political stability of the place rested on culture and habit. Observing the country from across the Atlantic for the last twenty…
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September 3, 2019 Over the past few years strong hurricanes have become so commonplace in the Southeastern United States that it feels strange when they don’t occur. Earlier this summer I found myself reflecting that it had been an oddly…
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August 26, 2019 When I moved to Atlanta in 1983 the sign outside The Darlington showed the population of Metro Atlanta at around 1.8 million. 36 years later the number is around 6 million. Between 2017 and 2018 Atlanta was…
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August 19, 2019 As you probably heard, the 2-Year and 10-Year US Treasury bond yield spread “inverted” for a brief period last week. In simple terms that meant that bond investors believed they could get better returns on 2-Year bonds…
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August 12, 2019 Recent news about Equifax and Capital One computer hacks shows the prevalence of data breaches. Consumers should be more guarded and take precautionary measures. In 2017, almost 150 million consumers were impacted by their financial information being…
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