The Weekly Insight Podcast – Gridlock Is Good That’s more like it. Last week was a significantly positive week for the market and – as of Friday’s close – each major index is up substantively from the start of the month. Past performance [...]

The Weekly Insight Podcast – Rollercoaster In our last memo, we noted that the previous week was a bit of a “rollercoaster ride”. And we said about last week:  “This week will not be much better as everyone focuses on Thursday morning at [...]

The Weekly Insight Podcast – Good Jobs Bad/Bad Jobs Good? A client called our office on Friday with a great question about last week’s jobs report. We’ll quote them directly: “So, help me understand this. A good jobs report is a bad thing [...]

The Weekly Insight Podcast – Not So Great Britain It has been a rough run in the market so far this year. No question about that. In fact, last week, we set a new “all-time record”: the first time we have had three consecutive negative qu [...]

The Weekly Insight Podcast – Hold! Last week was one of those weeks when it is simply not fun to be in the markets. And which market did not really matter. U.S. equities, foreign equities, U.S. bonds, foreign bonds…all had a bad week. Pas [...]

The Weekly Insight Podcast – Where's the Peak? In last week’s memo, we highlighted the expectations game that was surrounding the August inflation report that was released on Tuesday. The expectation was that the report would be…mixed. No [...]

The Weekly Insight Podcast – What’s Our Vector, Victor? The economy is an airplane. At least that’s what some might think when they hear the pundits talking about it these days. Terms like “soft landing” and “headwinds” keep coming up. It [...]