Collecting My Thoughts

 From our broker's report. "U.S. stocks extended their rally into the third quarter, led by strong recoveries in technology, consum...

Big beautiful bill. Republicans demand the perfect; Democrats demand that anything Trump must be hated.   Donald J. Trump has had the most s...

  I retired 25 years ago (Oct. 2025), and I've lived through a number of down turns in the stock market, which now is my income. Dot com...

The “Hard Fork” podcast released a bonus episode titled “Your Guide to the DeepSeek Freakout: an Emergency Pod” on Tuesday, January 28, 202...

Ross Rant, 11/25: "Clearly the Schiff Show had no impact on the market as everyone knows it was all just a reality show for the Dems th...

The academic definition of a recession set by the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research described the ...

It’s a puzzle considering how Obama demonizes the “fat cats” that the upper 20% have done so well the last 4-5 years (aka the recovery) and ...

In January 2009 the stock of Starbucks was about $7, and today it’s in the mid-fifties, down a little from a few months ago.  So how did the...

The Wall Street Journal on October 11 looked at congressional financial disclosures and found 72 staffers of both Republicans and Democrats ...

Maybe we'll just move in with the kids. Got this in my e-mail today. DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH TO LIVE THE RETIREMENT LIFE YOU WANT? Merrill L...

Ben said it, not Obama But markets respond to positive, upbeat messages, not gloom and doom, it'll-be-years talk. "Bank stocks on T...

How to create a Depression . . .“while the Federal Reserve is predicting that unemployment from our current recession will remain high throu...

Going south for the decade with President Obama's Plan

Maybe if he weren't a tax cheat we could trust him? Nah. He'd be doing Obama's bidding even if he were honest. Stocks fell again...

When Obama surges, the market falters He didn't support the surge and victory in Iraq. Can you trust your 401-k to an Obama surge and v...

Why I worry about the Boomers God bless 'em, are they ready? Ready for retirement? That story this week in the WSJ was really outrage...

4083 Who wants to be a millionaire? Rev. Jacob Frank Schulman and his wife Alice invested 25% of their income each year (married in 1954)....