by Robert Katch | Jul 8, 2019 | Economy & Markets
It can sometimes be hard to understand just how large the U.S. economy is compared with the other countries of the world. You’ve probably read that California, alone, if it were an independent country, would have the world’s fifth largest economy. But what about the...
by Robert Katch | Jul 1, 2019 | Economy & Markets, Investing
How to make sense out of the recent market behavior? We all experienced a painful decline in December 2018 before the markets took a sharp (and unexpected) about-face and delivered the biggest first-half-of-the-year in 20 years and the best quarter since 2009. The...
by Robert Katch | Jul 1, 2019 | Economy & Markets, Financial Planning
Our personal information has never been so easy to steal. And mostly we have ourselves to blame. Come again? Companies and consumers have been warned against sending out sensitive information as email attachments. And yet many companies still send out credit card...
by Robert Katch | Jun 17, 2019 | Economy & Markets, Financial Planning
The U.S. stock market seemed to be trending downward until the Federal Reserve governors’ meeting, where word came out that the Fed would hold off on raising rates despite the growing economy, and that the Fed might even lower rates. Stocks responded by reversing...
