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What Is a Tariff?

What is a tariff? It’s a tax that governments around the globe impose on imported products that consumers and businesses purchase regularly. Governments initiate tariffs to discourage their citizens from purchasing a product made in another country by making it more expensive and thus...

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Earnings for All Seasons

Earnings season can move markets. What is it and why is it important?

The Cost of Your Family Tree

Planning your finances for retirement is a challenge and it seems to only become more challenging as time moves on. …

The Ivory Tower Changes Wall Street

For as long as there has been a stock market, investors have sought a reliable framework to determine the future…

4 Reasons for the Return of Market Volatility

Why have the markets been so volatile recently?

US Personal Savings Rate

What can be learned from the savings rate? The U.S. personal saving rate stood at 3.7% in January of 2017,…

The Economic Journey of Your Morning Coffee

This morning 100 million Americans began their day in the same way—drinking their first cup of coffee.¹ Few, if any,…

The Student Loan Bubble

Call it a bubble, call it a catastrophe, call it whatever you’d like, but student loan debt has become an…

Back to School Edition – Avoiding Unnecessary Student Debt

With the Fall 2013 semester fast approaching, having a discussion about ways to avoid unnecessary debt is now more prudent…

Why the Recent Uptick in Housing is So Important

By all accounts, the news coming from the Case-Shiller home price index is good news; an average increase of 10.9%…

Mortgage Matters: The Streamlined Modification Initiative

In spite of a decade characterized by nearly every housing catastrophe possible under the sun becoming a reality, the Federal…

Story by Numbers: Lessons to be gained from the latest unemployment poll.

The fact that unemployment numbers are at their lowest in four years should be cause for celebration. But the numbers…