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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Dear Friends, The last four weeks have been a whirlwind and although wehaven't been able to attend a new release at the movie theater, wehave had a front row seat in 4D of the COVID 19 virus. Everyemotion has been experienced at one...

Monday, March 30, 2020

Dear Friends, If you have ever waited on a green light for what seemed likehours, this is how last week felt regarding the largest Main Streetassistance program in the history of the United States. Typicalannual appropriations from...

Thursday, March 19, 2020

Dear Friends, Earlier today President Trump, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, andthe head of the FDA presented (via a press conference) sometimely updates. It appears that while a vaccine is not availabletoday, there have been a number of...

Monday, March 16, 2020

Dear Friends, Big moves were made on Sunday, the Federal Reserve cutinterest rates to 0 and also launched a $700 billion quantitativeeasing program. Translation, we have enough liquidity to operateour banks and meet small business...

Thursday, March 12, 2020

Dear Friends,I realize that you are being bombarded with news from variousmedia outlets regarding the virus outbreak. Words like "Soar" andmore frequently "Plunge" have been thrust upon you and yoursenses. While this was unexpected and...

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Wednesday, December 18, 2019

November 6, 2019 I joined The Rotary Club of Valdosta. I was introduced to the club by my good friend Myrna Ballard, President of the Chamber of Commerce, who sponsored me for membership. Rotary is refreshing. Each week they have a...

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

“You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.” This quote is typically attributed to Winston Churchill, but sources say it became popular in a 2005 Lockheed Martin TV commercial. As Abraham Lincoln...

Friday, December 6, 2019

Meg Ryan, in the movie ”You’ve Got Mail”, finds herself hoping for a miracle. She’s in the wrong checkout line, the cash-only line, and she has no cash. And the clerk isn’t budging. The grumpy guy behind...

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Pringles just released a limited-edition, seasonal tube of chips. It’s actually an entire Thanksgiving meal-replacement, with chips flavored as turkey, chicken, duck, and even cranberry sauce and stuffing, and—just...

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

“This time it’s different.” Famous last words. Sir John Templeton, founder of finance titan Franklin-Templeton, called these the four most dangerous words in investing—probably because it sounds more like Vegas...

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

As long as it does the job well, I don’t care who manufactures the filing cabinet in my office. I bought it to hold documents, not organize them or write them for me. It’s not a service (someone doing work for you),...

Friday, November 8, 2019

There are no guarantees in life, but there are some things we can be pretty sure of: the sun will rise tomorrow, Trump is going to tweet, Valdosta is going to play football. But something could happen. The sun could fall out of the sky...

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Two weeks ago we muscled past the impulse to run out of the room at the sound of the words “meaning of life”, and last week we looked at the attitude required to live a meaningful life—namely, gratitude. This week we...

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Last week we looked at the reason for this pursuit. To summarize, the meaning of life provides us with the answer to the question of why—why work, why love, why life—and it’s this answer that gives our life meaningful...

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

If you were to ask three hundred of the wisest people in history about the meaning of life, you’d think they would draw a crowd, but the only way to clear a room faster is by announcing the presence of a life insurance salesman....

Monday, October 7, 2019

Getting caught in the rain on a motorcycle is not a huge problem, but if you don’t have a windshield or a visor, your face is going to be in a world of hurt. Even still, lot of riders choose to ride without any protection for...

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

The Mission of Business as Wholeness Modern Hebrew speakers use the same word for “hello,” and “goodbye”—but for some Jews, it’s not kosher to use in the restroom because it also is a nickname for...

Friday, September 27, 2019

6- On Freedom: Wisdom as Required Reading We all want to be free—after all, America is the “land of the free and the home of the brave”—but freedom often alludes us. Our constitution says freedom is an...

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

The period of life we call “retirement” means different things to different people. It may mean you hang it up and strike out into the sunset with the RV, or, like George Washington, it may mean you go back and run the army...

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

What is Success Our definition of success determines how we use our money and our quality of life. It can be difficult to define, but too often we look to others to define it for us—people we idolize like athletes, singers, or...

Friday, August 30, 2019

There is no clearer picture of greed than in Charles Dickens’ character Ebenezer Scrooge. It’s interesting because even though he obviously values money greatly, his actions show that he has no idea what the value of money...

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Welcome to our very first blog post. We hope to write a post every month that will recap what went on in the markets and our thoughts of the economy and markets in general. You will never see us make predictions here, so don’t take any...