by Ralph Bender, MBA, CFP® | Recent Posts
We just finished the longest bear (down) market since Elvis’ “Jailhouse Rock” was a top hit. (That was 1957-58.) How did we finish a bear market? As a reminder, a bear market is a drop of more than 20% from a recent highwater mark. From January through October last...
by Ralph Bender, MBA, CFP® | Biography, Book Review, Gold Medal, History, Non-Fiction
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom Reviewed by: Ralph Bender, MBA, CFP® “Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to father did it seem that they were all alike. That was father’s secret: not that he overlooked the...
by Ralph Bender, MBA, CFP® | Business, Featured – Blog, Market Update, Market Volatility, Volatility
GrandpaLand is a swing, trampoline, hammock, and a teetertotter in the shaded corner of our back yard. On Thursdays, the “littles,” as we call the grandkids under seven, spend the day with Grandma, while their respective parents get some work done. GrandpaLand...
by Ralph Bender, MBA, CFP® | Biography, Book Review, Bronze Medal, History, Non-Fiction, Sports
by David Maraniss Reviewed by: Ralph Bender, MBA, CFP® Growing up in the Pocono Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania, I knew of Jim Thorpe not as the world’s greatest athlete but as a little town in the next county with a weird name. How did it get named after an...
by Ralph Bender, MBA, CFP® | Financial Plan
I wish I knew how to coherently describe the process of fixing your bad habits. This may be snarky, but if you spend too much, you must quit doing that. Of course, that’s like telling a person struggling with their weight to eat less. It may be obvious; it isn’t going...
