The US Economy … Minus Housing over the past Decade

The US Economy … Minus Housing over the past Decade

With my writing I usually try to keep things practical (namely the topics of financial advising, financial management, investments and any issues particular to Denver), but when I veer off of this I try to stay within “cocktail party” conversations (when topics that usually come up in your casual conversations I hope my readers are…
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Will the True Victims Please Step Forward

Logic and good thinking is a hobby of mine. Conversely, dishonesty, misleading facts and poor thinking are very irritating to me which is why I probably I don’t like most news reporting. I feel like a good value I bring is to help people see wrong assumptions and myths in the world around us, particularly…
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US Slow Growth Economy: It Doesn’t Mean Your Growth has to be Sluggish Too

The Federal Reserve, along with an average assessment among economists, are publicly setting growth expectations lower than historical averages. Last month, Ben Bernanke said, “There is a reasonable chance, looking at the long run of history, that the U.S. will return to health growth somewhere in the 3% range.” I’m sure that just like me,…
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The Erasing of a Financial Crisis

To many, the mark of the beginning of the financial crisis was on March 16, 2008 when Bear Stearns was sold to Chase at a fire-sale price. The Dow Jones closed that day at 11,951.09 and continued to charge downward for the next year. As I write this, the Dow Jones is at 12,821.25. I…
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The Next Decade: Reversion to the Mean or a Historical Winter?

A very difficult area of scientific prediction is that of fluid dynamics. Or, the science of predicting how a fluid (which could be liquid or a gas) will react to various forces. An example is the weather and weather prediction. There are a myriad of things that affect how the weather will be, what direction…
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