By now, you’ve probably heard about the insanity that is the Reddit stock community, which has sent a previously destitute video game retailer into the stratosphere. There are others out there, but GameStop is the poster child at the moment. So What? What this level...
Schools may be closed, but it is finals week here at Monument. And here’s a computational nugget for the mathletes out there. You are probably familiar with averages. Three children. Ages 3, 5, and 9. Average age = 5.7 years. *Yawn* And you are probably familiar with...
“The sea was angry that day, my friends. Like an old man trying to return soup at a deli.” -George Costanza Replace “sea” with “market” and it kinda sums up the past three weeks, doesn’t it? On Monday, volatility surpassed levels seen in 2008 For the first time...
Most of the comments below were written on Friday the 21st, before the equity sell-off accelerated into the late afternoon. At present, the S&P is off ~3.0%, the 10-year treasury just hit 1.37% and the 30-year is at an all-time low of 1.83%. Gold is up, oil is...
As I wrote this on the afternoon of Friday the 13th, the S&P 500 sat near the cusp of yet another all-time high, driven by…what else…rumors that the December 15th tariff deadline could pass without any tariffs being assessed. U.K. election results are also driving...