Bump in the (Silk) Road?

Posted on Saturday, November 4th, 2017

With each passing day, week and month we are more in awe of this market. It just keeps plugging along higher and higher. There is no predicting when the momentum will shift so we continue to be invested but just a little less so. The winning strategy is to recalibrate our investing, downshifting in our… read more.

I Can Quit Whenever I Want

Posted on Saturday, October 28th, 2017

We have talked about the rise in central bank balance sheets and how those balance sheets may be THE most important metric when investing in this era. The European Central Bank (ECB) made an announcement this week and it seems that central bankers while promising to cut back and reduce balance sheets are already hedging… read more.

Very Superstitious

Posted on Friday, October 20th, 2017

There is no getting around the 30th Anniversary of the Crash of 1987 and all of the attendant media coverage this week. We ourselves have been writing about it all year. While history doesn’t repeat it does rhyme and we fancy ourselves not as divine prognosticators but as contingency planners for your wealth. That is… read more.