Financial Insights Blog

Market Insight - November 2024 In the week following the U.S. presidential election, the stock market has taken on the persona of a kid in a candy...

Market Insight - September 2023 Late last year I wrote that nearly all signs were pointing to an economic recession in 2023. Noted in my blog were...

Market Insight - December 2022 Headlines are trending away from inflation as the primary concern of investors toward the threat of an economic...

Market Insight - November 2022 Until this year and with just a few minor exceptions, investing in traditional bonds has been a lucrative strategy for...

Market Insight - July 2022 While I do live in an outer ring suburb of Minneapolis, I was surprised to hear that a local police officer had spotted a...

Market Insight - March 2022 At least in some respects, it hasn’t been a very happy new year thus far. A new variant of COVID-19 blazed through the...

Market Insight - December 2021 For better or worse, the U.S. and other global economies have been supported by ever increasing stimulus from central...

Market Insight - August 2021 Expect the unexpected might be good advice in many areas of our lives. Don’t get too rooted in what you expect to...

Market Insight - May 2021 There are few topics in economics that seem to be as widely misjudged and generate as much head-scratching as inflation. In...

Market Insight - February 2021 Over the past several years it has become apparent that our older son has inherited my poor eyesight, which was about...