Author: Nathan Gilbert

Last Friday, I went to Yahoo Finance to check how the markets had done for the day and the main headline caught my eye—it read “JP Morgan: Recession risk has never been higher”.  This seemed odd to me since I had just returned from a JP Morgan analyst conference last week, and they said nothing […]

For longer than I am willing to admit, I did not know the exact difference between Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day. Maybe I am stating the obvious to most of you, but Memorial Day is designated to remember the 1.2 million + people that have died fighting for our country. That’s a pretty astonishing number,

  As Ben Franklin famously said, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”  And, with Congress continually tinkering with the tax code, even that is less certain than the one inevitable fact of our own mortality. We don’t mean to get depressing or bleak, and understand that

Lately, it seems like only bad news travels fast. We are all under a constant barrage of news and information, and most of it seems to be negative. If you turn on any 24-hour news channel, there will be a non-stop “Breaking News” crawl across the bottom of the screen alerting you to the most […]

Last week, Nathan emphasized the importance of rebalancing your portfolio in his blog post–which was awesomely titled “The Playoff Beard” and reflected his love for the Washington Capitals. I don’t have a passion for the Caps (or beards), but when I read Nathan’s post, it did remind me of a great research

I am a fan of the Washington Capitals, and if you follow hockey, you probably know that they are currently playing in the second round of the playoffs against the Pittsburgh Penguins. It has become somewhat of a tradition for players (and now fans) to let their beards grow for as long as the team […]

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  …Captain Obvious Good news everybody! Our friends at the Department of Labor (DOL) finalized a rule on Wednesday that requires financial advisors to act in the client’s best interest when giving retirement advice. While this seems like an obvious stance, the rule was put into place to prevent advisors from

We all remember something about the good old days…whether it was your parents turning you loose in the neighborhood to play until you were called in for dinner…or matinee movie prices before 5 P.M…or (one of my favorites) those days when a bank CD paid 13-15%. But those days of high interest are gone…the