

June 2019 Market Risk Update
Dear Clients and Friends, It’s that time of month when we explore the monthly market risk update with our good friend Brad McMillan. To...

Matthew Ramer
Jun 21, 2019


Beyond Tariffs
Dear Clients & Friends, The Tariff War has taken center stage as of late, so we thought we’d discuss why economists and financial...

Matthew Ramer
May 31, 2019


April 2019 Market Risk Update
Dear Clients & Friends, It’s time for our monthly Market Risk update from our good friend Brad McMillan. Interestingly, while Brad and I...

Matthew Ramer
Apr 13, 2019


Dip Trade Out - Account Risk Change
Dear Clients & Friends, This weekend’s reading is important, so thank you for taking the time to read it. When the market fell more than...

Matthew Ramer
Apr 6, 2019


What the Heck is Blockchain?
Dear Clients & Friends, Many folks over the last few years have asked me about Bitcoin and blockchain technology. Some of the questions...

Matthew Ramer
Mar 31, 2019


February 2019 Market Risk Update
Dear Clients & Friends, It’s time for our monthly Market Risk Update. We are sharing our update a little later than usual this month...

Matthew Ramer
Feb 24, 2019


Social Responsibility vs. Performance
Dear Clients & Friends, First, let me thank all of you for your overwhelming response to last weekend’s B-Corp announcement, which hit...

Matthew Ramer
Dec 2, 2018


Rough Week
Rough week! The Dow was down more than 800 points on Wednesday, and the S&P 500 was down almost 100 points. The Nasdaq composite index...

Matthew Ramer
Oct 13, 2018


September Market Risk Update
Dear Clients and Friends, This week, we share with you our Monthly Market Risk Update. Before we begin, some of you may have noticed that...

Matthew Ramer
Sep 25, 2018


Party vs. Market
Dear Clients & Friends, Here we begin what may be a painful, but hopefully informative, discussion about the coming midterm elections. ...

Matthew Ramer
Aug 26, 2018


August Market Risk Update
Dear Clients & Friends, This week, it’s time for our monthly market risk update. However, before we get into it, I want to mention two...

Matthew Ramer
Aug 20, 2018


Gain, Loss & Performance, Episode 2
Dear Clients and Friends, A few weeks ago, we wrote an article discussing the differences between “Principal Gain & Loss” versus “Tax...

Matthew Ramer
Jul 31, 2018


Social Security and Medicare Trust Fund Annual Reports
Dear Clients & Friends, Each year, the Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds release annual reports to Congress that...

Matthew Ramer
Jul 7, 2018


June Market Risk Update
Dear clients and friends, It’s that time of the month – here is our monthly Market Risk Update, written by our good friend Brad McMillan....

Matthew Ramer
Jun 17, 2018


Gain & Loss
Dear Clients & Friends, This weekend’s reading may, on the surface, seem boring, but I promise you that it’s really not. In fact, this...

Matthew Ramer
Jun 3, 2018


Yield Curve
Dear Clients and Friends, I’ve been meaning to write an article about what we call “the Yield Curve” because of all the statistics and...

Matthew Ramer
Apr 27, 2018


Yesterday's Market
Dear Clients and Friends, Given the treacherous ride that the US stock market endured recently, I considered writing a mid-week email....

Matthew Ramer
Mar 23, 2018


Tariffs = Earlier Recession
Dear Clients and Friends, The effects, advantages, and disadvantages of tariffs in the global economy are relatively simple to...

Matthew Ramer
Mar 2, 2018


Are We Buying Into the Dip?
Dear Clients and Friends, Between visiting clients and paying minute-to-minute attention to the market this past week, all of us at...

Matthew Ramer
Feb 11, 2018


Dow plunges 1175 pts! MORWM update…
Dear Clients and Friends, This is EXACTLY what we’ve been writing about recently. We believed that we were overdue for a temporary...

Matthew Ramer
Feb 5, 2018
