What Does It Take?

Posted on June 10, 2003

What Does It Take? Occasionally clients ask, how do I ever I keep up with all of the constantly changing data and conditions in my business, with all its mind-blowing complexity. First of all, I like all the numbers and the changing patterns contained in them. When I was a kid the teachers would cluck at me for being able to come up with

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OK, What Next?

Posted on May 10, 2003

OK, What’s Next? SARS? Investors have waited nervously for the past 6 months while the war build up was underway, using it for an excuse to not invest. Now that the war has been settled, terrorists aren’t attacking in waves, and germ warfare didn’t materialize, what’s next for us to worry about? Some 'big picture' analysts are already beginning to paint a doomsday scenario

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Aging Gracefully

Posted on April 15, 2003

Thoughts on Aging Gracefully…. In time of war, it’s easy to get overly serious. As I believe that the greatest things are done with a light heart, I’m passing along the following from a stream of email jokes sent to me by friends. Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it. The older we get, the

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Deflation in the Air?

Posted on February 15, 2003

Deflation in the air? I first talked about the potential for deflation in 1998, in connection with my economic take on Y2K, and its potential for disruption of the markets. As time goes on, more and more of the economic ramifications I predicted 5 years ago have indeed happened. Large stock market decline, bonds performing strongly, and gold being something to avoid for several years (gold

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The Only Thing We Have to Fear

Posted on January 15, 2003

The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself Franklin Roosevelt said that at his first inaugural address when the country was in the depths of the great depression. That depression was deflationary, and right now, this economy has businesses fighting the problems of deflation again. Our current economy is in no where near the sad shape of the 1930’s when banks failed en-masse and

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