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Watching my daughter and her new husband work on their first home is exciting. It is a 65-year-old house, but it is a great fixer-upper. Homeownership is still a cornerstone of the American dream. Now that the largest publicly traded homebuilders have reported...

An alarm on my phone just went off, saying our area was now in a tornado warning, and I am instructing my colleagues to take shelter. An unexpected storm perfectly sums up how investing feels this year. Investors will soon turn their calendars and put the April market...

When my kids were young, they liked to put their helium balloons in a grey packing tub and try to hold all the balloons down with their outstretched arms. If they moved just a little, one or two balloons would spring back up. It feels a little like that now in the...

This past weekend, I was on a rugged Ozarks trail with my family. About halfway through our hike, we came to a fork in the path—one side looked smooth and easy, the other steep and along the river. My daughter wanted to take the easy way. My son, the adventurous one,...

If you've been paying attention to the stock market lately, you might feel like you're standing in front of an old-school pinball machine—watching the ball ricochet in every direction, flashing lights going off, alarms buzzing, and just when you think things are...

My poppy and I would often start our float trips at the Horse Creek boat ramp, where the water is really fast, making it difficult not to be pushed into the river bank as soon as we started. Those choppy waters right in the beginning are what investors are...

I was recently helping a lifelong friend and client with his Government TSP investment allocation. Every time I look into the TSP investment options, I am shocked that they don’t have an option for international bonds. There are times, like possibly now, when these...

During volatile markets, I often think of the kids on my baseball team. Picture this: it’s the bottom of the sixth, the bases are loaded, and our pitcher just walked in a run. What happens next? Some kids hang their heads, some get visibly frustrated, and a few start...

This past weekend, I took my nine-year-old son with me for a round of golf. One of his favorite parts of the experience is getting the chance to drive the golf cart. As I guided him through the process, I quickly realized that the hardest lesson to teach wasn’t...

Usually, our dog would get in the back of my truck on the tailgate steps, but if I had a trailer on, she had to walk from the trailer to the truck on a mesh metal ramp. She would just look at me like I was crazy. She hated uncertainty, and it seems investors hate...

We were at a softball tournament in St. Louis a few years ago when my wife got hit in the head by a foul ball. The sports complex had four fields with a big concession stand in the middle. The foul ball came over the backstop, over the concession stand, and hit her...

“Oh no, not the eggs,” my wife exclaimed last night when the news showed a semi-truck on our local interstate had crashed in the snowstorm and ruined all the eggs in its trailer. All consumer prices are pushing higher, but my clients mostly talk about egg prices. That...

As of February 12, 2025, the U.S. economy and stock market are navigating a complex landscape shaped by recent policy decisions, inflationary pressures, and market reactions. Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

It would be an understatement to say that the government has a lot going on during President Trump’s second term. Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

On Monday, January 27, more than a trillion dollars was lost from the US stock market. Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

Earnings season is underway, and we are learning how corporations performed last quarter. Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

The headline rose 2.9% in December, up from 2.7% in November but in line with most economist forecasts. Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

The stock market has had a great two-year run with back-to-back 20% annual gains and over 50 record highs, but as we begin 2025, everyone wants to know if the markets will hold up. Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.