Very few of us, looking back at the big picture for 2020, would likely say, “it was a good year.” And yet, especially for certain investment sectors, 2020 was, in fact, a record year. One of the sectors that had tremendous growth in 2020 was the sustainable investing sector.

Most investors are familiar with the phrase, “Past performance is no guarantee of future results.” A new study by researchers Corey Hoffstein, Nathan Faber, and Steven Braun provides interesting data supporting the often-used terminology.

There’s an often-quoted maxim regarding inherited wealth: “The first generation makes it; the second generation builds it; the third generation blows it.” Indeed, uncertainties around the next generation’s ability to exercise wise stewardship of family wealth have led to the drafting of many a trust document, many clauses in wills, and much misgiving in those who created

As in every year, the last weeks of 2019 saw a host of predictions and prognostications for the coming year. Many market pundits—including analysts for several major financial firms—were predicting a low likelihood of recession for 2020, worldwide economic expansion, a lackluster future for tech stocks, and other assorted notions.

Pvt. Jonathan Lee Gifford was the first U.S. soldier killed in Iraq.  He was killed just two days into the war on March 23, 2003.  Spc. David Emanual Hickman was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq on November 14, 2011. The Washington Post on December 17, 2011, said Hickman “may have been the last” U.S. soldier killed in Iraq.  After reading an article about Gifford and Hickman my sister, Gloria, was inspired to write the following poem “From Gifford to Hickman.”

It seems safe to assume that for most of us, not being in debt is a good thing. After all, debt, though it can be a useful tool at times, limits our options about how to employ our financial resources. Especially with consumer debt like credit cards, payments on the debt must be made every month until the balance is satisfied.

By now, it is widely recognized that the massive pandemic relief bills enacted by both the Trump and Biden administrations have added immensely to the federal budget deficit.

You might remember dire warnings some years ago about global overpopulation and the threat of overcrowding in the US. So how fast, exactly, is our population growing?

She was born like a flourish of color against the dismal grey milieu of the Great Depression, the grace of her presence like a divine promise that our country might soon emerge from its hard times with renewed life and vigor.  Fair haired with deep blue eyes and a disposition as gentle and sweet as her countenance, the little girl came into the world just as she left it seventy years later—an angel.  If love is patient and kind, and if love bears all things with grace and equanimity, then Irene Elizabeth Anne Wittig was love.