by Dave Hoshour | Aug 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
It’s BAACKK!! Talking about inflation. Here are the last 12 months of inflation data per the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. We have not seen 5% inflation since the 1980s but here it is again. Why? Take your pick. Shortages due to the economic shutdown and pernicious...
by Dave Hoshour | Mar 8, 2017 | Blog-Investments, Uncategorized
The most popular course I ever taught was called Finishing Well. I taught people how to get everything together so that their executor, or perhaps themselves as executor of a parent’s estate, would not find themselves in “executor hell.” The tasks...
by Dave Hoshour | Aug 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
In my last post I gave credit to spikes above 40 in the VIX, popularly known as the fear indicator or volatility index for accurately predicting 3 of the last 5 market bottoms almost to the very day. That is accurate. On the other two occasions, 2001 and 2008 I said...
by Dave Hoshour | Jul 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
Mohammed El Arian may not be a household name but he is very highly thought of on Wall St. as an allocator of capital. He is pretty even-handed, neither a perma-bear nor perma-bull. This week’s Barron’s magazine has an excellent birds-eye view of world...