Market Update – March 11, 2012
Austin or San Antonio finance job needed! I have a former student who is moving back to Austin because her husband is joining that faculty at UT. She’s done really well. She has significant...
View ArticleA Special Blog
Today’s blog is a little different – it’s a short personal story and a request that you follow this link to read an entry posted on another site. Approximately seven weeks ago, the son of one of my...
View ArticleMarket Update
First, thank you to everyone who clicked over to www.prayingforpeyton.com. Here’s the link. Jim and Kate were thankful for all of the interest and were especially grateful to everyone who made...
View ArticleThe End of an Era?
First, I want to point out a 90-second piece that I did with Kris Maxwell. It’s about “too big to fail”. Here’s the link. Obviously, the creative work is all Kris – and I think it’s really...
View ArticleReinhart and Rogoff Revisited
Has it been long enough that you miss me? I didn’t think so. First, I received so many emails when I said that I was going to stop my weekly writing – I wasn’t able to respond to any of them. But,...
View ArticleIt Won’t Hurt That Much!
Bond prices dropped sharply on Tuesday (meaning interest rates increased), so I decided to write a quick note about an interesting Vanguard article that I read last week. The Vanguard piece is...
View ArticleSummer Reading
I’m writing to give you some summer reading…because you don’t have enough to do. First, three friends of mine run an investment firm (Goshawk Global Investments, L.L.C.). They have written a couple...
View ArticleMarket Update — June 24, 2013
A few interesting numbers I read this weekend: A bad week. The S&P 500 fell 2.1%. The MSCI emerging markets index fell 4.7%, its biggest weekly drop since May 2012 (credit the Fed, questions...
View ArticleMarket Update — July 1, 2013
Good morning. Here are some of the numbers that I found most interesting from a few articles that I read this week. Markets and Economy Strong first half of the year. The Dow Jones Industrial...
View ArticlePlosser’s Speech (and no, I’m not back!)
Good Morning, Long time, no talk to. While I’m not about to resume blogging, I had written some notes about Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser’s recent speech…and I thought that it would be...
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