by Ralph Bender, MBA, CFP® | Business, Economic Commentary, Inflation, Running Money ®, Volatility
Two consecutive weeks, the first never reached 80, while the second bottomed at 81. “Wearable technology” like my Garmin Fenix 6, measures and scores my sleep. And those lines in the chart represent my daily sleep scores for two consecutive weeks. What was the one...
by Ralph Bender, MBA, CFP® | Economic Commentary, Inflation, Market Update, Oil, Running Money ®
Time spent watching Red Skelton, the Honeymooners, and even Churchill’s funeral with Grandpa Roy planted lasting memories of a black and white world. But the world was never truly black and white, and discerning the colors of today’s global economic and investment...
by Ralph Bender, MBA, CFP® | Economic Commentary, History, Inflation, Market Update, Oil, Volatility
What do the Watts Riots, Beatlemania, Kennedy’s Assassination, ZIP Codes, the Vietnam War, Cassius Clay’s first World Heavyweight Championship, South African Apartheid and Nelson Mandela’s lifetime prison sentence, Buffalo Wings, Martin Luther King’s “dream” speech...
by Ralph Bender, MBA, CFP® | Economic Commentary, Inflation, Market Update, Running Money ®
Don’t fight this bull. It could destroy your future. The Dotcom Bubble burst in early 2000, killing the last secular bull market. Since then, we have had two major bear markets, one driven by economics and the other by financial panic. As recently as 2013, the stock...