Bob Powell of The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch, noting that some people are getting nervous now that the S&P 500 has hit a four-year high, offers eight strategies for protecting your portfolio. His article opens with Dave’s critique of portfolio insurance: To be fair, however,…
Recently, Dave was featured on the local CBS news during a segment for ConsumerWatch regarding Social Security (“ConsumerWatch: When It Comes to Social Security, Expect Less”).. The feature was based on an Associated Press piece pointing out that for the first time ever retiring Americans…
Storied bond investor Bill Gross was recently and widely-quoted saying that “the cult of equities is dying”; the latest salvo in PIMCO’s “New Normal” campaign. We continue to find the arguments for a “New Normal” less than compelling on several counts, not least that there is…
Have you found yourself engulfed in the details for the upcoming election? Are you concerned about how you will be affected by the results? If so, please join us for an interactive discussion with political expert Greg Valliere as he discusses how the new administration…
No, we are not talking about Dave and Elissa’s adventures in the BVI! We are announcing two additions to the Yeske Buie Team – Cameron Farbotko and Lauren Vitt! Cameron is a graduate of Virginia Tech’s CFP® Certification Education Track and will be joining as…
Elissa participated in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s first Innovation Strategy meeting, held on Tuesday and Wednesday in Washington, D.C. This is her report on the proceedings. Thanks to all of you who shared your ideas and comments! Elissa’s Report The purpose of the CFPB…
There seems to be a growing consensus that, notwithstanding Europe’s well-documented troubles, the region’s stock markets have become so beaten down that they may now be a real bargain. All other things being equal, the more equity prices get pushed down, the higher the expected…
Elissa has been invited to participate in the Financial Education Innovation Meeting of the newly formed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This meeting is bringing together academics, behavioral finance experts and financial counselors to identify and brainstorm solutions to common consumer decision-making problems. First of all,…
Daniel Gross, economics editor of Yahoo! Finance, discusses the euro-zone’s shrinking share of U.S. exports. With U.S. trade growing with neighbors Mexico and Canada, as well as the developing world, and shrinking with Europe, the euro-zone crisis threatens the U.S. trade economy less with each…