Archives for 2016

Who is Dr. Janet Yellen, and why is she so important?!?  Although her name is frequently in the news, does the public ask themselves what she does?  Dr. Janet Yellen is the chairman of America’s central bank, the Federal Reserve Bank.  As the face of the Fed, she is in charge of sharing the outcome […]

Campbell’s soup company combined the fun of eating dinner and learning your ABC’s when they introduced their now famous alphabet soup many decades ago.  Today it seems all industries have combined the fun of alphabet soup with some terminologies specific to their businesses. Unfortunately for many of us, if we are not in a specific […]

In this digital world the art of balancing a checkbook has gone by the way of the dodo bird.  Only a small sliver of our population still takes out their checkbook to manually record money that goes in or out of their account.  Instead, today we have become conditioned to use and trust our online […]

In the past, when adult children left their parents’ nest, rarely were they expected to be living under that same roof again.  Many parents did not anticipate the responsibility of financially supporting offspring past their college days.  In the several years since the Great Recession, more and more adult children may be mumbling “I’ll be […]

It’s probably safe to say that we have all wolfed down a meal or two, when extreme hunger has hit.  However, your stomach may be full but your brain hasn’t had enough time to register that fullness.  Did you know that it takes at least twenty minutes for the brain to signal a full signal?  […]

Our physical, mental, emotional and financial well-being are all interconnected.   To be healthy financially, we must be physically, mentally, and emotionally sharp. Our wealth means far less if we don’t have our health. Financial problems cause stress, and stress can damage our health. Likewise, high stress and poor health can damage our financial situation. Therefore, […]

Thirty seven year old Kobe Bryant, retired L.A. Lakers basketball player, recently penned a letter to his 17 year old self.  As most teenagers and even adults have a very limited attention span, it was short and to the point. He effortlessly used a few simple paragraphs to touch upon important lessons that his present […]

It seems these days we all hear the terms “bull market” and “bear market” quite frequently.  But we have to ask ourselves; do we actually know their true definitions?  It’s rather fascinating, yet simple where these terms originated. The manner in which these animals attack offers a clue. Bears attack with their claws out, swiping […]

Since the birth of the internet we have conditioned ourselves to rely on it when searching for the answer to our burning questions. When we look to purchase a car, a house or even our next TV we depend heavily on this resource to find our best choice. As intelligent as the internet has become, […]

As graduation times are upon us, we reflect on some of the guidance we were given at our own time of commencements.  The graduates that will be filling our workforce in the near future will be faced with investment decisions that many of them may never have come across before.  Having a conversation about a […]