A thought on your portfolio's "total return."  (If you were told there would be no math today, I apologize in advance.) 

Total Return has two parts to it:  appreciation & income.  If  you view owning a stock like you are an...

In a post dated 4/5/24 titled "The Stubborn Soft Landing", I wrote the following: "A soft landing is - unofficially - when monetary policy makers both slow the pace of economic growth and reduce inflation without causing a recession.  So far, that appears to be the most likely sc...

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) consists of 12 members:  the seven members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and four of the remaining eleven Reserve Bank presidents, who serve one-year terms on a rotating ba...

A closer look into a quietly emerging risk in the stock market

Consumer spending and low unemployment have helped counter actions by the Federal Reserve.