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Market Commentary Q4 – 2015

ByJonathan Smith January 15, 2016November 21, 2016

Never Before North Carolina joined the ranks of lottery states in 2005 by introducing the NC Education lottery. As a side note, only 29% of the revenue goes into actual education and somehow, NC still ranks 50th in the nation in teacher pay and 51st (that’s not a typo) in percentage increase in teacher pay...

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Market Commentary Q3 – 2015

ByJustin Smith October 16, 2015November 16, 2016

"It's just like riding a bike...on water." That's what I told myself this past July as a boat full of my buddies cheered me on. The five of us had gathered in North Carolina from as far away as Texas and Illinois for our Financial Planning Study Group retreat and I wasn't going to let...

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Market Commentary Q2 – 2015

ByJonathan Smith July 15, 2015December 15, 2016

Grinding Like a Garden Tiller The human brain works nonstop trying to figure out what the eye sees. It’s been working overtime trying to figure this one out: over the last year, the Dow has gone up one percent and down one percent 53 times. Over this time, it traveled 42,823.56 points up and down,...

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Market Commentary Q1 – 2015

ByJustin Smith April 15, 2015November 15, 2016

When Millie and I got married, we had a wedding shower where people gave us marital wisdom to go along with their gift. I remember hearing cutesy advice like “don’t waste all the good kid names on your pets” and “soak up these first years, they are so much fun.” They were sweet and sincere...

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Market Commentary Q4 – 2014

ByJonathan Smith January 15, 2015November 21, 2016

When Justin was in high school, he and I rebuilt a 1977 International Harvest Scout II. We bought it for $1400 from Wilkes Community College where the Auto Shop students had been experimenting on it like it was a rolling Frankenstein; we had our work cut out for us. After we repaired a D+ student’s...

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Market Commentary Q3 – 2014

ByJustin Smith October 15, 2014November 16, 2016

Our son, Everett, just turned 18 months old last week. And after having two tutu-wearing daughters (Grayson now 7 and Finley Cate now almost 5) it felt like a real “win” for me, as a dad, to have my son’s favorite word be “truck.” And that doesn’t really even do the word justice, because he...

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Market Commentary Q1 – 2014

ByJustin Smith April 15, 2014November 15, 2016

Chasing Returns and Wagon Wheels Growing up, I loved to listen to my dad (known to me Monday through Friday 8-5 and in this commentary going forward as “Jonathan”) as he would read the stories of Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris. Harris, a journalist and editor of the Atlanta Constitution in the late 1800’s,...

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Market Commentary Q4 – 2013

ByJonathan Smith January 6, 2014November 21, 2016

Themes for 2014 This past year might go down as one of the “worst best” years in market history. The combination of cash still on the sidelines, abysmal bond returns and a poorly attended stock rally will do that. While we stay away from predictions, we have put together our important themes for the coming...

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Market Commentary Q3 – 2013

ByJustin Smith October 17, 2013November 15, 2016

“We the People, In Order to Form a More Perfect Union…” Last month, we sent our first kid off to kindergarten and I quickly discovered one of the joys of parenthood: learning from your kids. Every morning in September, all the students at her school would recite (well, really sing the “Schoolhouse Rock!” version of)...

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Market Commentary Q2 – 2013

ByJonathan Smith July 15, 2013December 15, 2016

Ben Bernanke probably spent at least a couple minutes reading his pocket thesaurus, looking one last time for another way to say it. When no new words came about, he stepped up to the microphone at the Fed’s June 20 press conference hoping to shed light on the FOMC Statement from the day before. Investors...

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