The 11th Commandment?
Dear Friends, As we enter 2020, we can appreciate just what a difference a year can make. Even if you are not of the Christian faith, chances are you are very familiar with the Ten Commandments from the Bible (I…
Read More 
Stranger Things – Feeling Prosperous in Turbulent Times
Dear Friends, On July 4th, the new season of the Netflix TV hit “Stranger Things” came out, and if you are like my (Mitch’s) family and 40 million others, you couldn’t wait to tune in and watch what chaos would…
Read More 
Bouncing Back from the Flu – and Down Markets
Dear Friends, There are a couple of powerful factors that help explain why most know about the Swine Flu, but very few are familiar with the Spanish Flu. The first is a concept that psychologists refer to as “Recency Bias”,…
Read More 
How High Is That Wall?
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…
Read More 
Your Best Employee
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…
Read More 
Back to The Future: Volatility and Trade Agreements
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…
Read More 
Bitcoin, Diversified Portfolios, & Tax Reform Bill
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…
Read More 
Stewardship: Weathering the Storms for Long-Term Prosperity
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…
Read More 
Back to School: A Letter to Ms. Frierson
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…
Read More 
Return on Life (ROL) and Innovating for Superior Outcomes
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…
Read More