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Investors Column Why the Fed Raises and Lowers Interest Rates

September 10, 2024 - If you read the news even occasionally, particularly since President Biden’s election, mentions of “the Fed” have crossed your path. What is the Fed?  In 1913, Congress created the Federal Reserve System to be the...

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Finance – Profit Is of Life-or-Death Importance

September 10, 2024 - Is Profit Bad? Some people will tell you so. What are they telling you about your life? Imagine you – or you and your family or a group of people – are in a forest.  Whether...

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Investors Column Bellwethers

August 9, 2024 - Peering into the future Where is the stock market headed?  Will it improve or decline?   The larger question, of course, is:  in what direction is the U.S. economy trending?...

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Finance – A Million in Your IRA?

August 9, 2024 - When is a million in your 401k or IRA not a million? When you start withdrawing money from your 401k or IRA.  Then you must pay taxes on that money. You saved your whol...

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Biden’s War On the Economy

July 12, 2024 - COVID is behind us.  Business is over that bump in the road.  The S&P 500 Index and the Dow have recovered. Their all-time highs were in late March, barely a month ago, and the indexes remain near those highs.   And yet, nobody would say the economy is doing great....

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Investors Column

July 11, 2024 - If you have been reading Investors Column for a while, you probably are beginning to make some sense of what stocks are, how to buy and sell them.  You also are beginning to understand what mutual funds are. But there is another category of investment choices available:  “...

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Investors Column A Great Company’s Downhill Slide

June 7, 2024 - Companies should not have life-spans.  There is no rational reason why a company should become physically or mentally less capable, like an animal or plant.  A business cannot suffer organ failures. And yet, companies can seem to become archaic, out-of-date, antiques of a bygone...

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Finance – The Destructiveness of Tyranny

June 7, 2024 - If you lived in a tyranny – where the threat or possibility of the seizure of your wealth is a fact of life – would you buy all the things you have now, or would you hide your money, stashing it someplace where you hoped it was safe from being taken? What happens ...

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Investors Column

May 9, 2024 - Your experience as an investor is likely to include three different avenues for investing. The first and easiest is through your employer’s 401k plan.  The money that gets added from your account comes from two sources:  the amount you agree to have taken from your paychec...

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