by Bret Wilson | Nov 1, 2022 | Market Commentary
Current Conditions All eyes are still on the Federal Reserve right now. The expectation for the November meeting this week is that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates 75 basis points. A month ago, the Fed clearly sent the message that they would do whatever...
by Bret Wilson | Oct 1, 2022 | Market Commentary
Current Conditions Recently, I have spent a lot of time examining market indexes to identify possible points of support and resistance, and the June lows seem to be a logical point of support. This week the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq indexes both hit that level of...
by Bret Wilson | Sep 15, 2022 | Market Commentary
Ten weeks ago, on July 1, 2022, we were wondering if the stock market had reached the bottom yet. At that time, I wrote that the economic data coming out was not positive and stock buying was not happening at that time, so the markets might not have reached the bottom...
by Bret Wilson | Sep 1, 2022 | Market Commentary
Recently I looked at our family budget to compare how much more we were spending on groceries and fuel in 2022 versus 2021 and 2019. I skipped 2020 as it was such an odd year due to covid. I knew we were spending more even though it felt like we were buying less, so I...
by Bret Wilson | Aug 15, 2022 | Personal
Personally, I don’t care for the word retirement. I prefer to call the time after you finish working at your career “making a life change.” I see it as the moment you can begin living life more on your own terms. But will you be financially secure enough to live off...
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