Author: Planeteria Media

I truly believe the best way for all of us to increase our investment returns is to get smarter about taxes.

A massive bifurcation in the market has developed. Value stocks, those boring companies that produce products and lots of income, have vastly underperformed the market as a whole.

I am terrible at vacationing. As in possibly historically bad. By its very definition “vacation” is a suspension of work.

Seven years ago this month, the topic of the Altus Insight addressed the possibility of the United States losing its status of the holder of the world’s reserve currency.

This past month I had the good fortune of attending the Strategic Investment Conference in San Diego.

Spring isn’t quite in the air yet, but baseball is back. While some consider baseball to be slow and boring, I love the intricacies and strategy of the game.

It pains me to say it, but the economy really has seemed to benefit from Trump’s election. I don’t have any scientific proof as to why, but I believe it is a confluence of several factors.

What a year 2017 has been. Full of great experiences and challenging experiences. Said another way, a year full of life.

I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. It is my favorite holiday each year. I have much to be thankful for, as does everyone reading this article.

October was quite the month. Starting the night of October 8th, three different fires started burning in the North Bay and raged for well over a week.