Commentaries

The official unemployment rate has been hovering at about 8.2% during 2012, but it’s down from its recent peak 10.3% in October of 2009 (Source: National Conference of State Legislatures). …

Gasoline is a unique commodity. It is something most of us need to buy periodically. Its price is posted prominently wherever we drive. Our awareness and outrage about its price …

What is your tax bracket? What percentage of your income do you pay in taxes? Even those who know that a certain presidential candidate paid 13.9% of his income in …

So how is the economy doing? Your answer probably depends on whether you get your economic updates from official sources (Bureau of Labor Statistics and Congressional Budget Office) or Faux …

Press coverage of the Occupy movement has shifted its focus from the financial/political issues that created the movement to the commotion, arrests and individual acts of destruction that are its …

I haven’t been this hopeful since the day before President Obama was inaugurated. Twice last week I dropped by Caesar Chavez Park in Sacramento to see what’s happening with Occupy …

Last Friday the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index closed at 1136.  A year ago it closed at 1134.  In the mean time, this index of the 500 largest stocks rose …

$14,300,000,000,000.00 or fourteen-point-three trillion dollars. That’s a lot of money. If you stacked one-hundred dollar bills flat, one on top of each other, one million dollars would be four feet …

I’m regularly asked this questions by clients, friends, strangers (once they know what I do), and by myself. My answer is usually: “yes. ,” but it almost never seems like …

The 10-year period from 2000-2009 has been referred to as the Lost Decade. During these years, the 10-year average annualized return of the U.S. equity market (as measured by the …