One can look pretty much anywhere on the internet or business media and find various "Wealth Building" schemes that offer financial independence and with it, the all of the associated dreams that...
Benjamin Lupu, CFP
Offside: Getting Caught Playing Dee-fense in Volatile Market
In American football, "Offside" is defined as "a foul in which a player is on the wrong side of the line of scrimmage when the ball is snapped". In financial investing, "Offside" is when investors...
1st Quarter Investment Report
A variety of negative factors placed considerable pressure on financial markets in recent months. The S&P 500 lost fully 12% of its value in January into February alone, the worst decline since...
3 Ways Transports Are a Leading Indicator
Going back in time around 18 months, trouble for stock prices began with the Transports Index, which led stock prices on the way down in this most recent decline which began in August of 2015. In...
Gold Price Spike May Signal Beginning of End of Commodities Rout
As Winston Churchill famously said in the dark days of WW II, "This is not the beginning of the end, but it is the end of the beginning"... Gold prices have been in a wrenching bear market since...
Bear Market: Yogi and Boo-Boo; Not the Killer Grizzly
Looking at the performance of financial markets in recent months, it seems increasingly likely that the splendid Bull Market of 2009-2015 that powered US stock prices up more than 200% from the...