I always know when it’s time to write a blog on the markets when my husband asks me at night, “So, is the market crashing?”  To be fair, the change in the equity markets from 2013 to 2014 has been dramatic.  So what happened when the calendar changed from December 2013 to January 2014?  That […]

  To borrow a word from the legendary Gomer Pyle: G-o-l-l-y!   In 1955, just five years before The Andy Griffith Show became a big hit, William McChesney Martin, Jr., then Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, made an often-quoted speech in which he said, “The Federal Reserve, as one writer […]