HAPPY BIRTHDAY BULL MARKET! If you have listened to the news on the financial channels over the past couple of years, you have probably...

WHICH MARKET WAS RIGHT? Commonly accepted among stock market pundits is the belief that stock markets predict our economic future by six...

MARKET DOWN / ECONOMY SOUND Santa’s sleigh is usually pulled by reindeer. This year, it looks as if it were pulled by a team of bears....

SPLIT DECISION Thank goodness the elections are over! I believe that was the message from the 525-point surge in the Dow on the day after...

TIME TO BAIL OUT? I haven’t thrown away a business magazine since the mid-80s. The historical perspective you get as you thumb through...

ECONOMY STILL IN GOLDILOCKS MODE Each month we eagerly wait for the “Employment Report”, arguably the most important of the U.S. economic...

NO EUPHORIA IN SIGHT Sir John Templeton, a pioneer in the mutual fund industry, is notable to many of us in the investment business...

IS THE CORRECTION OVER? The news has been rampant with market pundits attempting to forecast the next direction of the markets. Even...

A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE The New Year is off to a roaring start with the Dow Jones Industrial Average bursting through the 25,000 level for...

WARREN BUFFET’S PRICELESS INVESTMENT ADVICE We quote Warren Buffet in almost every edition of the “Crouch Connection”. I believe it...