Before we dive into this week’s “Weekly Insight”, we wanted to take a quick second to thank the more than 400 clients, friends, and family who came out to our Insight FairFest picnic at the Iowa State Fair on Saturday. It’s always so much [...]

The problem with writing a weekly newsletter is that we’re putting ourselves “on the record” repeatedly. We’re regularly making statements about what we think the future might bring and, bluntly, we’re not always right. Take, for example, [...]

It’s hard to believe, but summer is entering its last full month. In just over three weeks, kids will be going back to school (we hope!). The State Fair is almost here (get your reservations in!). And – historically – things start to get [...]

We don’t think we’re in the minority when we say we’re getting pretty sick of click-bait journalism. OK – we get it – you get paid when people click on the link to your article. So, everything has to be dramatic. But the drama is getting [...]

It’s that time of the quarter: data dump time. The market is inundated with information in the first 45 days of a quarter. Earnings data, economic data, etc. There is a lot to go through and digest. But it also has a big impact on what ha [...]

Roughly one year ago, we wrote a memo titled “Great Expectations”. The gist of the memo – as we dove headlong into earnings season after one of the worst economic quarters in history – was things in Q2 were bad. The expectation, however, [...]

We hope this finds you safe and rested after a weekend of celebrating the 245th birthday of the greatest country on Earth!  While we were celebrating with fireworks and burgers, the rest of the world was still out there doing their thing. [...]