Tag: Greg Stewart

Recently, while on a driving trip through Wyoming, I invited my daughter and her husband, who live just across the border in Idaho, to join me for a day at Yellowstone National Park. Despite living only an hour’s drive from the...

It’s July 2020 and we are several months deep into a global pandemic that has impacted nearly every aspect of our lives. Whether it’s day-to-day interactions from behind a mask, with handshakes a thing of the past, processing...

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. ~ H.P. LovecraftIt’s June 2020 and the world continues to experience significant upheaval in multiple...

Scary times often bring out purveyors who, for whatever reason, feel the need to prey on people’s fears.  This has been especially true during current COVID-19 conditions.  Rather than delve into why I think...

What is “normal”? It felt pretty easy to understand back in the first week of March. It feels like many years – rather than weeks – have passed since then. “Normal” seems hard to locate. I hear a lot of people,...

During a call with a business owner client last week, while discussing the massive stimulus package that was then headed toward approval, my client said something that hit home hard:“$2 Trillion of stimulus, yet somehow I have a...

When we first started writing this article, in what seems like wayy back on March 11th, the world was just starting to react to the rise of COVID-19. The markets had been experiencing some of their worst days, with panic in the...

Looking back over 2019 from this vantage point feels pretty invigorating. It was a very strong year for returns – with even conservative asset allocations without a lot of stock exposure performing quite...

This year’s hit movie starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale, follows automotive visionary Carroll Shelby in his quest to build a race car capable of defeating perennially dominant Ferrari. If you like either cars, or...

The first nine months of 2019 were incredibly strong. In fact, it’s been one of the strongest first-nine-month periods in decades. By mid-October, as I sat down to develop this article, the S&P 500 was up over 18%. It’s been...

Recently, my business partner Dan Darchuck and I had the opportunity to take a 2019 Dodge Challenger RT out for a spin during a trip into San Francisco. It’s an incredibly powerful muscle car, and I spent some time testing its...

It seems that lately, “skepticism” has gotten a bad rap. In fact, in our current climate of deep political and societal division, taking a skeptical position on certain topics could even get you un-invited from your boss’s next...