by Richard Baker | May 7, 2025 | Articles
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...
by Richard Baker | May 1, 2025 | Articles
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...
by Richard Baker | Apr 23, 2025 | Articles
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...
by Richard Baker | Apr 9, 2025 | Articles
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...
by Richard Baker | Apr 2, 2025 | Articles
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...
