Life is chock-full of twists and turns, unexpected detours, and completely unforeseen circumstances. It keeps things interesting.

The best lessons tend to be the simplest. That’s certainly true for investment lessons.

The investment industry, like all others, has been transformed over the past few decades.

Sometimes when things are too calm for too long, you start to get suspicious. Parents to younger children know this all too well.

The stock market is not your friend.

There are thousands of intelligent, articulate, and well-meaning citizens of this world. Many are tremendously convincing, too.

Doing well as an investor isn’t hard. In fact, too often investors make it far harder than it needs to be. Simple beats complex.

Fear is always in the air, but there are occasionally epic outbreaks of this emotion when it comes to financial markets.

But it’s fair and reasonable to say interest rates today are high. We have actual data to prove it.

Financial markets go up. But they also go down, as we have been painfully reminded in 2022. Given what’s already occurred, I wanted to...

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It’s that time again – time for account statements to roll out to investors. Two words: Brace yourself. The end of September is fast...

A couple of questions for you: When is the stock market going to recover? How high will interest rates go? When will inflation recede to...

When investing, we often don’t think of an order of operations to maximize our investment dollars. But like math class – multiplication...

This recent market volatility has many investors wondering if now is a good time to change up their investments. It’s not easy to watch...

Investing can be a fun enterprise when your investments are increasing in value. Like gambling wins, people love to talk about their...

It sure doesn’t feel like it in 2022, but the stock market in the United States generally goes up. On any given day, it’s virtually a...

We are fortunate to live in an agricultural community. I truly think a connection to the land and an appreciation for how crops are...

Most of us know that the stock market will go through down periods. You may even recall events such as the dot-com bubble or The Great...

If you haven’t heard, the market is down. And when I say “market,” you can almost take your pick: stock market, bond market,...