Market Results: Q2 2013 Three headlines last week: “Consumer Sentiment Near 6-Year High” “Home Prices Show Biggest Gain in 7 Years” “Worst Quarter for Bonds in Nearly 20 Years.” Wall St. meet Main Street. With the exception of US and international developed country stocks, all other capital markets were down in Q2:   Although Americans …Read More

What is the Fed’s Balance Sheet, and Should I Care? Note:  In some articles I try to explain topics that are hard for news outlets to cover because they are too complex or take place over a long period of time.  This is one of those topics that you don’t hear much about yet has …Read More

Lose Weight, Be Smarter, Look More Attractive, Live Longer … and be more successful!  How? It’s easy.  Really! Just get enough sleep. Getting enough sleep might actually be the single most beneficial action we could take to improve our lives—in almost every way—according to Harvard Medical School’s Division of Sleep Medicine. Too little sleep: makes …Read More

When Good News is Bad News This week the US Federal Reserve issued a statement and Chairman Ben Bernanke held a press conference that triggered a broad sell-off in every capital market: US and international, stocks, bonds, real estate, and commodities.  He was trying to deliver good news. In China, short-term inter-bank lending suddenly became …Read More