The Weekly Insight Podcast – Beggars' Night Happy Halloween! If you, like us, live in Central Iowa, you are familiar with the experience of Beggars’ Night. It’s an interesting phenomenon and confusing to those who move to the area. Instea [...]

The Weekly Insight Podcast – Why 2%? There are certain things in this world that are immutable. No one disagrees with them. They are settled fact. Water is wet. We need oxygen to breathe. The Earth circles the sun. But just because they’r [...]

The Weekly Insight Podcast – Earnings and Israel There was a lot going on last week – both in the world and the markets. We got loads of useful economic and earnings data. And we also learned much more about what’s going on in Israel and [...]

The Weekly Insight Podcast – Bond Bust There’s been a story the financial services industry has been telling investors for many years. It’s one that’s meant to convey safety and confidence. It’s one that countless investors have bought in [...]

The Weekly Insight Podcast – A Position to Proceed Carefully Editor’s Note:  There will be no Weekly Insight or Weekly Insight Podcast the week of October 2nd. We’ll be back in action on Monday, October 9th! Well…we did our best. You’ll n [...]

The Weekly Insight Podcast – Strikes and Shutdowns, Oh My! Two steps forward, one step back. Or is it one step forward and two steps back? Either way, that’s what it seems has been happening for the last 3+ years in this market. Pandemic. [...]

The Weekly Insight Podcast – The Red Dragon Before we start this week’s memo, it is important to remember what a special, and tragic, place this day holds for our Nation. It seems almost impossible that it was 22 years ago that a group of [...]