Common Cents Blog
If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. We all know that old saw, don’t we? What’s more, it is true way more often than not. There always seems to be a catch.…
This week, the world’s elites met in Davos, Switzerland, for the 54th World Economic Forum (WEF). If this is news to you, welcome to a pretty large club. In a relatively short period of time, the…
As many of you might know, this week, the SEC approved exchange traded funds (ETFs) which invest in or otherwise track the performance of cryptocurrencies/Bitcoin. This was not a surprise even if the timing of the…
This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released “The Employment Situation – December 2023.” The headline number was pretty decent. Apparently, the economy created 216,000 net, new payroll jobs last month. Let’s just say, it…
2023 is in the rearview mirror. It seems time tends to speed up the older you get. This is one of life’s little tricks, as is giving you children when you are young, naïve and unable…
Unless you really don’t follow the markets, you know the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met this past week and didn’t actually do anything. By that, I mean it did not raise or lower the target…
This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released “The Employment Situation – November 2023.” To say analysts had been impatiently awaiting the report would be an understatement. First, the jobs report is always the most…
Each December, my crystal ball shows shadows of what is to come in the new year. Ordinarily, it simply displays an inverted image of my countenance. Unfortunately, the message is this: It won’t be as easy…
2023 has been one of the weirder years in my career, if not my life. While some of the data has been good, namely anything to do with the labor markets, the majority would have suggested…
After the deluge of red ink in September and October, we have told our clients to expect the stock market to rally to close the year. Of course, when you say such things, you have to…