by Sara Baker | Aug 6, 2025 | Articles
My daughter and her husband were on a jet ski on the lake last weekend. They were doing fine until she made a sharp turn and forgot to tell him. She leaned one way and he leaned the other, and before they knew it, they flipped the jet ski. Hopefully, the market...
by Sara Baker | Jul 30, 2025 | Articles
One of my favorite county fair rides was the Zero Gravity, which uses centrifugal force to pin you to the wall you were leaning on while it spins crazily. Everyone who rode it felt topsy-turvy walking away. I can’t think of a better description of what corporate...
by Sara Baker | Jul 23, 2025 | Articles
A few years ago, I built a baseball field on some land I owned along the river for my kids’ teams to practice on. The ballfield was a great decision, but putting the porta-potty far away from the field was a bad decision when the river flooded and carried it...
by Sara Baker | Jul 17, 2025 | Articles
Since bottoming out in April, the U.S. stock market has staged a powerful rally—pushing the S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Dow Jones Industrial Average to new all-time highs. As of mid-July, the S&P 500 has gained over 18% year-to-date, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq has...
by Richard Baker | Jul 9, 2025 | Articles
As most Americans start taking their late-summer vacations, they are realizing that much of the country is hot; thankfully, so is the stock market. The stock market continues to show cockroach-like resiliency in navigating Washington’s ever-changing policy landscape...
by Richard Baker | Jul 2, 2025 | Articles
Last week, my wife and I rode the gondola up Stone Mountain near Atlanta. There were about twenty-five people in the gondola, and just as it crested the mountain edge, it swung 5-6 feet forward and backward, and the riders screamed. That is how the markets felt over...
