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02 Feb '21Financial Rubbernecking – Part 3: Retirement Accounts
Continue readingHow do your retirement savings stack up? Are you accumulating retirement assets faster than your peers? This is the third posting in a series exploring these types of questions. (See Part 1 – Income; See Part 2- Net Worth) Every three years I look forward to the latest Federal Reserve Board’s Survey of Consumer Finances […]
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12 Jan '21Financial Rubbernecking – Part 2: Net Worth
Continue readingHow do your finances stack up? How are doing compared to others? Are you accumulating assets faster or slower than your peers? How does your net worth measure up to the rest of the country? This is the second posting in a series exploring these questions. (See Part 1 – Income) Every three years I […]
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07 Dec '20Financial Rubbernecking – Part 1: Income
Continue readingTech employees – as a group – are highly-compensated. However, it may not feel that way given the high cost-of-living in many tech hubs like Seattle and the San Francisco Bay Area. To keep grounded, every three years I look forward to the latest Federal Reserve Board’s Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) to remind us […]
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23 Mar '20Five Predictions For 2020
Continue reading2020 Predictions The Chinese stock market will outperform Berkshire Hathaway will cut several deals with distressed companies at bargain prices Top line shines, margins suffer for diversified retailers (grocery) The Fed will nationalize an additional $5+ trillion of the national debt Extraordinary government programs to bailout small businesses With large swaths of the global […]
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17 Mar '20Demand in the age of Coronavirus
Continue readingThe economic shock delivered by the COVID-19 pandemic has been swift and severe for capital markets. In only a few short weeks many market indices are down 30-40% from recent highs. These large declines in stock prices reflect Mr. Market factoring significantly lower corporate earnings in the future (and a large amount of uncertainty). So, […]
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04 Jan '20Decade in Review
Continue readingU.S. Large Stocks Dominate Investing this past decade has been defined by a long bull market rising from the ashes of the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2008. The current bull market—defined as a generally increasing stock market without a 20% decline—is now almost 11 years old, the longest in U.S. history. Like other bull markets, […]
