by Sara Baker | Nov 30, 2023 | Articles
Never buy a puzzle from a thrift store because there is going to be a missing piece. Last week, my wife broke that rule and bought a jigsaw puzzle from a thrift store, and sure enough, it had a missing piece right in the middle of it. Now that we are further down the...
by Sara Baker | Nov 17, 2023 | Articles
I’m not usually one to say, “I told you so.” But … Last week, I wrote that the stock market needed a few more things to fall into place for the possibility of stocks starting a run at new all-time highs. Well, they did, and not in the ten weeks I...
by Sara Baker | Nov 10, 2023 | Articles
“They call him the streak!” My wife and I saw Ray Stevens sing “The Streak” in concert years ago. The premise of the hilarious song is that a man keeps streaking the town, and everyone is in an uproar. Right now, the markets are doing some fun...
by Sara Baker | Nov 2, 2023 | Articles
I used to have a friend with a pouty kid. I remember seeing a picture of the kid crying while sitting in the middle of its dumped-out Halloween candy. He had everything he wanted and still wasn’t happy. Let me explain how investors are doing the same thing right...
by Sara Baker | Oct 25, 2023 | Articles
I was shocked they had mashed potatoes. A couple of my mentors and I were doing some teaching in a remote village in the Amazon rainforest. The locals told us that an American was running a café in town; to our great surprise, it had great food. The current strong...
