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Groundhog Day in June

One of my favorite movies is Groundhog Day. Laughingly, I have seen it over and over again. However, as clever as I perceive the movie to be, actually having to relive the same day countless times…

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Foreign Investments Seem So… Foreign

This week, our Investment Committee spent a fair amount of time discussing the longer-term future of the global economy and investment markets. The primary question on the table was whether the United States’ economy will be…

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What’s the Fed to Do?

This week, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the monetary policy making arm of the Federal Reserve, met and didn’t do anything. Well, I suppose the members of the committee discussed and overanalyzed any number of…