What a difference a few weeks make. Over the summer, U.S. stock indexes shot up like sunflowers (sorry – we just saw the new Van Gogh biopic). By the second week of October, though, the aggregate market value of leading American industrial companies was in virtual freefall until it recovered in the last days of […]
You know how you can tell that, as of November 6, 2018, we’ve entered the Millennial age of American politics? There were no losers. Everybody got a trophy. As of the following morning, there was still no firm count of exactly how many House of Representatives and Senate seats would be claimed by each party, […]
President Trump might have secured another policy win that has the potential to positively affect broad swaths of the American public. Tax reform’s impact was experienced more by businesses than by individuals, as evidenced by Republican congressional candidates deemphasizing it as a campaign theme. And although the administration has prevailed in the battle to seat […]
The internet is a dangerous place. Let’s set aside for the moment all the ways you can be surveilled by governments, marketers, and network providers. Let’s also defer to another day any discussion of identity theft committed by foreign agents and domestic bad actors. The important lesson for today is that we do not voluntarily […]
Smith Anglin Financial, LLC, is honored to announce it has been named to the 2018 Financial Times 300 Top Registered Investment Advisers. The list recognizes the leading independent RIA firms in the U.S., and is based on data reflecting the organization’s performance. Smith Anglin secured its position with more than $700 million of assets under […]
Would you believe Weekend at Bernie’s is almost 30 years old? We only mention it because this lighthearted summer comedy offers a message that’s just as timely today. When the two buddies show up at their boss’s plush, beachfront chateau, The Serious One says: “All of this could be yours if you set your goals […]
If you collect inspirational, empowering quotes, then you’ve already heard this one a million times: “I skate to where the puck is going to be,” hockey legend Wayne Gretzky once said, “not where it has been.” At the time of this writing, it’s a hundred degrees outside in most cities with a National Hockey League […]
We have a lot to be grateful for. I’m sitting here writing a financial newsletter, and you’re sitting there reading it. That means we both, thank goodness, have enough money to be concerned about investing it. We’re not living paycheck-to-paycheck, as so many others are. We’re probably not even living in fear of a sudden […]
You’re probably among the 60 percent of U.S. homeowners whose property is overvalued for tax purposes, at least according to one study. According to another, you’re also probably one of the 98% who hasn’t done anything to address this injustice. But there’s plenty you can and should do to trim your property tax bill because […]
If you’re like most of us, you haven’t thought too deeply about your retirement savings for some number of years. You might have made a selection on your W-4 form the day you were on-boarded and haven’t given it a whole lot of attention since. You get your periodic statement from your retirement plan, and, as […]