What does your dollar buy you? It depends. Are you spending it today or sometime in the future? If you’re not spending your dollar today, you’ve got a problem on your hands. With a positive inflation rate, your dollar is

The stock market has continued its historic rally with the S&P 500 gaining 19% year-to-date with reinvested dividends, contributing to a total return of 61% since the market bottom in 2022. While much of this performance has been driven by

Here we go again. Record high heat waves. Record high house prices. Record highs in the stock market. Lots of “record highs.” When you hear these headlines, you naturally think this is newsworthy. There’s something anomalous going on. Something extraordinary, which merits making

After over a decade of historically low interest rates, higher cash yields are a welcome development. Interest rates are higher across all cash instruments including many savings accounts, certificates of deposit, and money market funds. The federal funds rate has

As we’re well into spring, with summer just around the corner, I’ve been thinking about the weather, as it seems particularly fickle this year. A few days of cold and rain, a day of sun, then cold again, then some

Can you believe a quarter of the century is in the history books? As Terry Pratchett said, “inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.” What does this have to do with investing? Everything. The chart below

As a financial advisor to lawyers, one of the most common – and often most controversial – financial planning topics I cover is whole life insurance (sometimes known as universal life). Over the years I have reviewed dozens upon dozens

You’ve undoubtedly heard of the proverbial “average family” with 2.5 kids. Some families have no kids at all, some have two, some have 10. Put them all together and find the average, and you’ll come up with a single number