Bob French, CFA

It’s a bit of an understatement to say that GameStop has been in the news lately. There are a lot of people opining about what is going on, but we want to cut through that and look at what actually happened (we look at what it all means in another article. So what actually happened,…

It’s been a pretty wild ride with GameStop. But while there has been a lot happening, does it actually mean much? We’ve examined the details of what happened elsewhere, so I’m going to focus on some of the bigger questions that this whole affair raises, and specifically how this all impacts long-term investors. So let’s…

There’s no magic formula for investing. The financial markets seem to take some sort of cosmic joy in bringing people back down to Earth. And it’s value investing’s turn – in fact, it’s been value investing’s turn for a while now. To put it mildly, this has been a rough decade and a half for…

Interest rates are one of the key tools that the Federal Reserve has to manage the economy. Changing how much it costs to borrow money (even if the Federal Reserve doesn’t have complete control of this) can slow down an overheating economy or give a slower economy the nudge that it might need. Recently the…

Is there anything in historical data that can help us sort out which candidate, Trump or Biden, is going to be better for the stock market?

Today, March 9th, 2020, was a bad day for the market returns. There are four main elements to this story that I want to pick apart…