Dear Friends, How High Is That Wall? Well actually – not THAT wall.  Not the border wall – we’re talking about the “Wall of Worry”. There’s an old saying that bull markets climb a “Wall of Worry.” This wall is…

When I (Mitch) turned 15, my Dad helped me get my first real summer job – picking tomatoes in the hot West Tennessee sun.  So on my first day, I showed up at 6:45 a.m…,wide-eyed as a crew of non-English…

Dear Friends, Recently, thanks to the content-editing app VidAngel, our (Mitch’s) family has been watching classic movies that we previously couldn’t watch because of certain scenes or language that we didn’t want our 9 year-old son to repeat at school…

Happy New Year: China May Pull the Plug on Bitcoin Causing a World-Wide Economic Collapse Did that get anyone’s attention?  That’s what headlines are designed to do, but as we know, they are frequently sensationalized and misleading, especially as it…

Recently, as we sat watching the aftermath of the latest hurricane and the devastation of Puerto Rico, my nine-year-old looked on sadly at all the families searching for loved ones in the rubble and asked, “Dad, what can you do…

Dear Ms. Frierson, I hope this letter finds you well.  You probably don’t remember me, but I was in your kindergarten class in 1976 at Andrew Jackson Elementary.  You were my first teacher and my first memories of school as…

Exactly 10 years ago, Steve Jobs and Apple introduced the iPhone and changed our world forever.  Remember what the world was like 10 years ago?  Not only was there no iPhone, there were no apps, Twitter, or Instagram…and Facebook had…

The term “Successful Outcomes” has become a poplar theme in today’s Financial Industry lexicon. Whether it’s specific to retirement planning or other financial planning goals, there seems to be an increasing awareness on determining and pursuing the key ingredients that…

Now that the dust has settled on 2016, it will be remembered as an excellent year for equity investor.  However, the headline numbers for the year don’t even begin to tell the story. It seems like a distant memory now,…

Hurts So Good As we consider the solid year-to-date performance of the investment markets, it reminds me of one of my favorite and most iconic songs of the 80’s. In 1982 John Cougar Mellencamp released his first iconic album. There…