Economy and Investing

Stock markets around the world have gotten choppy again after a period of extended calm and some are asking what’s up and what’s next.  The answer, as always, is that we don’t know what’s next in the short run but we do have a high degree of…

Topics: Economy and Investing

We wrote about the renewal of the Greek debt crisis a month ago, noting that it was “like deja vu all over again,” mirroring the Greek debt crisis we were writing about back in October of 2011 (Beware of Greeks Bearing Gilts), when the markets…

Topics: Economy and Investing

With Greece back in the headlines, bringing with it a fresh bout of market volatility, we thought it might be time to touch base and offer a little history and a quick forecast.  We first wrote about the sad state of Greek finances back in…

Topics: Economy and Investing

What a difference a day makes, or, at least, a calendar quarter.  As everyone knows by now, last year was a good year for U.S. stocks and a not so good year for foreign stocks (at least, for those of us who are dollar investors).  The first…

Topics: Economy and Investing