2022
May 31, 2022 The art auction world operates on a cyclical calendar. The highest-profile Modern and Contemporary auctions occur in New York in May and November and London in June, October, and February. The May sales in New York concluded…
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May 23, 2022 As a parent of a 5-month-old, the daily patterns of my household revolve around nap times, bedtimes, and baby bottles. Normally, parents using bottle feeding were concerned only with the bottle being sanitized, the contents being of…
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May 16, 2022 Last year, Major League Baseball celebrated the 20,000th player to appear in a game over 150 years of the sport. Reaching this level is an extraordinary achievement. As a batter, if you can manage to hit the…
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May 09, 2022 Last week we received the Federal Reserve’s May interest rate decision, which was another 50 basis points (half a percentage point) increase. Of course, rising interest rates mean borrowing costs more, and eventually, savings will earn more.…
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May 02, 2022 When I moved to Atlanta in 2007, Midtown felt more like somewhere you drove through to get from Downtown to Buckhead than it did a bustling tech hub and the city’s fastest growing and highest-priced office market.…
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April 25, 2022 Over the last few years, the finance industry has continued to grow rapidly, in part through the development of new fields and the introduction of new concepts. As gas prices continue at sky-high levels and a month…
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April 18, 2022 Over the years I have come to realize I struggle with seasonal depression. It tends to flare up in late-March and early-April, just as I go through the tax-prep fire drill and pay my estimated Federal and…
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April 11, 2022 Are oil prices higher now than they were a generation ago? The question seems absurd. Over the past 25 years, the price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil has risen from $21 in March of 1997 to…
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April 04, 2022 I asked my British nephew (and namesake) to contribute to our weekly blog post to provide a slightly different perspective. Here are his words: Javier Blas, energy, and commodities columnist at Bloomberg, recently wrote on Twitter: “Big,…
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March 28, 2022 There is a phrase that has been used to describe the situation investors have been experiencing for several years now. The phrase “cash is trash” has been coined to reference the lack of options for investors and…
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