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Have you ever stood outside a ride at a theme park debating whether the line is worth it? I had this thought a few times while at a water resort with my family over Memorial Day weekend. While you're deciding, dozens of people get in line. An hour later, some of them...

We were so nervous! In 1997, my wife and I bought our first house and signed the papers for our $18,800 mortgage. going into debt for the first time. Looking back now, it wasn’t much money, but that debt felt like a huge responsibility. I suspect the tech companies...

My college-aged son called me upset a few weeks ago. The water pump went out and the head gasket blew on the car he bought himself. He said he saw the temperature gauge go up, and he pulled over as fast as he could, but it was too late; his engine was ruined. I’m...

I have been singing in my head, “East bound and down, loaded up and truckin'” for a few days now, as the continued closing of the Strait of Hormuz has led some companies to create interesting solutions. It looks more and more like a “Smokey and the Bandit” situation....

Last weekend, I had one of those rounds of golf that didn’t make much sense on paper. Typically, my strength is putting, the part of my game I rely on to save strokes and stay consistent. But this time, it was the opposite. My driver was dialed in, my irons were...

I took my wife to the beach over the weekend, and she thought she had left our sunscreen at home. We were at a remote resort in Costa Rica with no stores nearby. I went to the little resort gift shop to buy sunscreen, only to find it cost $50, which I was too cheap to...

We used to ride ATVs under the bridge where I grew up. My uncles and I would build a racetrack and run them hard. One thing I quickly figured out was to watch the path ahead of me and the other riders who might stop suddenly or crash. Right now, this is a bit of how...

Last weekend, I was coaching my kids’ youth baseball team in a tournament. They didn’t play perfect baseball, far from it. There were a few errors and missed opportunities, but they kept showing up each inning, putting the ball in play, getting walked, stealing bases,...

My Dad caught my brother and me having a BB gun war. I hid behind a tractor tire trying to shoot my brother's baseball cap off, and my brother was using his Daisy BB gun to try to give me another cowlick. When Dad came around the corner, there was an immediate...

When I was in high school, the baseball team on the north end of our county had a pitcher with a killer 12-6 curveball. He made us look silly with our big swings and misses. That is, until we figured out his signs and started hitting him hard. We could be seeing signs...

When I used to put gas in my old 1976 Monte Carlo, it would make a gargling sound about 10 seconds before the pump shut off. I always thought it was talking to me. Sometimes stocks can speak to us. On Monday, March 23, 2026, they told us they want to go higher but...

Typically, during an oil crisis, for every 30% increase in oil prices, there is a 10-15% drop in the U.S. stock market. Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

The Hormuz crisis has a second-order story almost nobody is covering, and it could hit your grocery bill harder than the gas pump. Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

Oil prices have surged 14% in the first few days as Iranian strikes on ships around the narrow Strait of Hormuz have driven energy prices into the conflict. Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

The oil markets are in the crosshairs of the potential escalation between the US and Iran. Most of the concern is about transporting oil in the volatile Middle East region, especially if there were to be a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

2026 is shaping up to be a really big year for international stocks. Many of the global indexes are outperforming the S&P 500 this year. The economic forecast outlined in this material may not develop as predicted & there can be no guarantee that strategies promoted will be successful.

The Consumer Staples sector is up over 12% year-to-date, ranking third after energy (20%) and materials (15%) among the eleven S&P 500 sectors. Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.

Investors worry that artificial intelligence (AI) tools could disrupt traditional software companies’ business models. Fervent Wealth Management is a financial management and services entity in Springfield, Missouri.