That is the big question these days. When can I have my life back? When can I go back to work? Will the kids be back in school for this term? The question might even be will students get back to physical classrooms in 2020? We have so many new acronyms and terms these days […]
When you should embrace the stock market correction.
What do you need to embrace the stock market correction and recession created by COVID-19? First off, you need guts. We are in a period of extreme fear. You need to be able to press that buy button amid all of the scary reports and images. And it’s likely to get worse. You also need […]
Do you believe in the human spirit?
The world is currently fighting a virus. We are fighting a viral strain known as COVID-19. We are fighting something that we cannot see. And it doesn’t belong here, in humans. It belongs in other animals, epidemiologists tell us it originated in bats and found its way to humans. The human body doesn’t know what […]
Dale opens the stock market, closes a fund. And Saturday means Weekend Reads.
Yes, it was quite a week. On Tuesday I helped friends at BMO open the markets. No, I did not get to press the button. Well, you’ll see my mock stock market opening pose shot below. Not a great hair day, but what are you going to do? BMO introduced some new ESG ETFs. That […]
Let’s not forget the lost decade for US stocks.
We forget a lot things as investors. Currently, we don’t know what a real stock market correction feels like. We certainly had a couple of love taps in the last several years. But we have not had an emotionally-crippling, serious fight with the stock markets. We are soft. It feels like stock markets always go […]
The decade in review. The 2010’s.
Many will write that it was the best decade ever for investors. It’s too bad of course that so many are not participating. Of course, so many were scared off by the severe market corrections of 2008 and the tech collapse of the early 2000’s. But we can’t deny that the last 10 years has […]