Executive Summary Today’s stock prices are anything but reasonable, and the warning signs extend beyond stock prices.  One would think with bankruptcies escalating, debt loads compounding, profits plunging, and the dollar losing value, the stock market would be falling.  But thanks to the Fed’s electronic printing press [...]

Executive Summary The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) declared a recession officially began in February of this year.  Since March, over 50 million people have filed first time unemployment claims.  Additionally, real annualized economic growth fell 5% in the first quarter and is expected to fall [...]

Executive Summary Some investors might not realize that the S&P 500 is a market capitalization weighted index.  Although there are 500 companies in the S&P 500 Index, almost 22% of the performance is determined by only five companies or two percent of the total.  Investing legend Bob [...]

Executive Summary If earnings are the backbone of stock prices, the question today should be:  when earnings tumble, should stock prices continue rising?  Some might say that the stock market is “looking through” this set-back and is pricing in a return to normal.  The risk to many [...]