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Who is the ‘Fed’ and what do they do?!
Dear Mr. Market: “Who and what is the Fed”? “What do they do” and “How do I understand what they are really saying and how it will impact me!?” These are questions that we often hear from investors....
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MPG Core Tactical 60/40: September 2014 Performance Update
Dear Mr. Market: October is historically one of your stormier months and it looks like you began to rumble a month or so early this year. We’re headed into the last quarter of the year but in case...
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MPG Core Tactical 60/40: March 2015 Performance Update
Dear Mr. Market: You don’t have to be a professional money manager to be aware that the swift decline in oil prices has been one of the most impactful financial headlines in years. As a matter of fact...
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MPG Core Tactical 60/40: June 2015 Performance Update
Dear Mr. Market: Like clockwork you set us up for another stretch of pretending that you wanted to inch up higher and then sold off the last week of the month. How you behaved in May is similar to...
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MPG Core Tactical 60/40: July 2015 Performance Update
Dear Mr. Market: Yes…the stock market is down. Your portfolio is down. There is no way it is not down. We just said the word “down” three times in a row. Get it? Everything is down. If you have a...
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3 old stories rattling the stock market in 2016
Dear Mr. Market: You’ve certainly kicked 2016 off with a bang! Even investors that rarely, if ever, look at their portfolio are aware of the rough start to the New Year. Over $8 trillion in market...
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Brexit too shall pass…
Dear Mr. Market: You hate uncertainty; that fact has been established from the day you began trading. If the rest of the investing public hasn’t heard about “Brexit” vs “Bremain”…it’s not necessarily...
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May Gray turns into June Gloom
Dear Mr. Market: We have discussed many times how emotionally driven you are. On some days you tempt us with your record setting high wire acts and on others we have our lips virtually wrapped around...
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Why buy Gold and Why Now?
Dear Mr. Market: We have commented many times on how people have short memories. In the case of recent stock market behavior, however, there is no way one could forget what a ride we’ve all been on....
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Good news = Bad news
Dear Mr. Market: Last week was a microcosm of how stock market headlines can really lead you to hear one thing yet see another. For a while now we’ve been barking about how the FAANG stocks have...
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Thanksgiving Thoughts
Dear Mr. Market: Aside from extending our warmest wishes to you for a Happy Thanksgiving, we want to remind you that there is something else happening this time of year. We’re entering the strongest...
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Everyone is Getting it Wrong
Dear Mr. Market: You’ve behaved fairly well after some insanely raucous behavior last year. You (the market) has actually surprised a lot of folks just barely six weeks into the year. While there is...
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March Madness: Final Four Investing Bracket 2023
Dear Mr. Market: March Madness is back! And so are we… The world stopped pretty much everything at one point during the pandemic and sports were of course no exception. For true sports fans there...
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Going Long in Two Fields: Why TLT Could Be Your MVP During Recessions
Dear Mr. Market: First off, if you want to know how amazing Artificial Intelligence is, the following list of article titles were generated for this article in the matter of four seconds! (we picked...
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