Bending the Health Care Cost Curve Ever Upward

Did the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. "Obamacare") succeed in making health care more affordable for the average American household?...

How Much Do You Need to Save for Retirement? (Part 2)

In our first installment of this series, we approached the question of "how much do you need to save for retirement?" by consider...

A Slow Week for the S&P 500 in Week 4 of May 2018

As expected, stock prices gapped up to start the fourth week of May 2018 thanks to a deal between the U.S. and China to not impose new tari...

Where Did All the Young Adults Go?

We're about to go into a long holiday weekend , with something of a mystery to consider, in that it would seem that young adults between...

GE Deflocks from the SP 500

It didn't last very long. At all. But it was still beautiful when it happened! In case you missed it, we're referring to what happ...

GE and the S&P 500 Finally Converge

We've been tracking the random, yet curiously synchronized movements of the S&P 500 (Index: SPX ) and General Electric (NYSE: GE ) s...

Snapshot of Cumulative Dividend Cuts in 2018-Q2

Earnings reporting season for 2018-Q2 is now mostly in the rear view mirror, which makes now a good time to review the state of dividend cut...

U.S.-China Trade Negotiations and the S&P 500

If investors have really been concerned about the threat of a potential trade war between the U.S. and China, the S&P 500 will very like...

Spring 2018 Snapshot of Expected Future S&P 500 Earnings

Every three months, we take a snapshot of the expectations for future earnings in the S&P 500 at approximately the midpoint of the curre...

How Much Do You Need to Save for Retirement? (Part 1)

There are several different schools of thought for determining how much money you need to save to be able retire someday. Over the next sev...

Overcoming Fear of Investing in Stocks

Although the media reports that they spend much of their free time killing things , two-thirds of millennials appear to be unable to fully ...