June 4, 2019 Who Gets the Data Collected by Your Smart Car? Hepburn Capital maintains an extensive network of procedures to protect your data (data encryption/firewalls, etc.) However, when I see articles like the one below, it makes me feel like our little slice of your data may be secure but there is so much more that we all are losing control of every day. I

May 13, 2019 Protecting Your Investments from a Trade War This is a short update about what we are doing here at HCM with the trade war dominating the financial news and markets. First of all, tariffs don’t stop trade, but are a tax on goods which makes the targeted goods more expensive to buy, ultimately slowing down sales. But tariffs themselves are not likely to

April 30, 2019 Sell in May and Go Away? No Way! This is the time of year when pundits trot out even more opinions as to why one should be pulling out of the stock market. Sure, there is a seasonal bias to the markets, it often proves stronger in colder months and weaker in warmer months, but relying on averages while investing can be dangerous

April 2, 2019 Who Makes Your Investment Decisions? Money is the mother’s milk of the financial markets. Without it, prices would float down toward zero as sellers wait for buyers with money to spend! As a result of this relationship, one of the indicators I follow is money flows in the markets. As my friend Tom McClellan, publisher of the McClellan Market Report, has said, “There

March 5, 2019 Recession? What Recession? Harry Truman once said, “I’d like to find a one-handed economist.  All my economists say one thing and then add, ‘on the other hand’”. I thought of Harry several times this week when there was a flurry of news articles on the possibility of an economic recession.  To keep things in context, remember that our economy has a constant cycle