By Steve Wachs, CFP® Here is your first quiz for the new year. What is the origin of the WIN button above? Your reward for answering the question correctly is you can stop reading this [...]

by Steve Wachs, CFP® My wife and I have property in Northwest Arkansas which is beautiful this time of year. On one of the trails illuminated by the fall tree colors, we came across a sign [...]

by Steve Wachs, CFP® “As the economic expansion continues, inflation fears are escalating. The Federal Reserve considers yet another interest rate increase to engineer a soft-landing. However, [...]

By Steve Wachs, CFP® “Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.” – Sam Ewing I am not sure what a hair cut [...]

By Steve Wachs, CFP®   “Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy, interest rates, or elections.” Warren Buffett We have previously used the first [...]

by Steve Wachs, CFP® Some of you may recognize this quote. Was it spoken by FDR, Winston Churchill, or Ronald Reagan? Actually, it is spoken by Coach Eric Taylor from the fictional television [...]

by  Steve Wachs, CFP® Impeachment, U.K. officially withdrawals from the European Union, US/Iran on the brink of war, Australian bushfires, the death of Kobe Bryant, Hong Kong protests, the [...]

by Steven G. Wachs, CFP® “You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current [...]

By Steve Wachs CFP®                    “We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good. Even now, Charlie (Munger) and I continue to believe that [...]

By Steve Wachs,  CFP® “Worry is paying interest on a debt you don’t owe.” – Mark Twain Climbing a wall of worry is defined as a market uptrend that occurs when there is significant [...]