Rising rates! No end to the war! 24 Hour trading! With the fed starting to raise rates, it will push the values down on our bond holdings.  Don’t worry, our bond fund managers will work hard to trade out of some old bonds and buy newer, higher yielding bonds, which should give us upside later when we see rates start to move down. We have no idea when this war will end and give us lower fuel prices.  In the meantime, it has caused the fed to raise rates to fight inflation.  Imagine starting … [Read more...]

Chips, chips, chips, AI, AI, AI, Rockets to Mars and beyond! Too much excitement for me…  I actually have a love hate relationship with my computer.  I use it daily, but I also have DAILY software issues.  AI gives me the wrong answers sometimes, so I don’t trust it.  If you have tax questions, go to the IRS website.  If you have legal questions, ask your Attorney. If you are looking for data, AI works pretty good at finding and acquiring data, but it still doesn’t know what to do with … [Read more...]

Didn’t see a war coming in the first quarter… It felt like we would have a continuation of 2025, at least through the first half of 2026, but war always brings a downside.  At least some of the stocks we have been interested in buying have better prices.  The problem is the stocks we already hold also have better prices, lower ones!  Which doesn’t help us! They say we have an average of one market correction every two years, some are worse than others, some happen so fast, if you went on … [Read more...]

Happy New Year!  Do you feel like 2025 was just a blur?  Lots of market action all year, maybe that’s why 2025 came and went so quickly?  I hope the markets are a little calmer this year. Of course, the media won’t let us have calm…. They like madness!  So probably skip as much media as you can this year.  As far as markets and forecasting, what will happen in 2026, we don’t know.  But, as I mentioned back in the summer, when the market came back so quickly after the April dip, statistically, … [Read more...]