2023 Markets: Something For Everyone
-By Charles Brown, M.Brown Financial Advisors -January 11, 2023 With 2022 behind us, Wall Street analysts and investors are doing their best to discern what will happen to markets in 2023. Markets are well off of their 2021 highs, but…
A Few Interesting Charts
-By Charles Brown, M.Brown Financial Advisors -October 25, 2022 It continues to be a very bad year for most asset classes this year. Here are a few charts that gives us a good idea of where we stand today. They…
What I am Watching
– By Charles Brown, M. Brown Financial Advisors August 10th, 2022 Global stocks have bounced significantly off the lows set in mid-June, yet they are still a long way from getting back to where they started the year. Inflation is…
Wealth, War and Wisdom
– By Charles Brown, M. Brown Financial Advisors April 25th, 2022 I recently finished reading “Wealth, War and Wisdom” by Barton Biggs (Amazon link: here). This book looks at how various stock markets (US, UK, Germany, France, Japan and others) reacted…
Two Charts to Watch in 2022
– By Charles Brown, M. Brown Financial Advisors, February 7, 2022 So much has already happened in the financial markets thus far in 2022, it’s hard to pick only a few charts that will help us understand what the rest…
What To Expect In 2022
– By Charles Brown, M. Brown Financial Advisors, December 15, 2021 With 2021 winding down, all eyes are on what will happen to markets in 2022. Let’s start with the very basic fact that no one knows what the future…
Enjoy the Ride
– By Charles Brown, M. Brown Financial Advisors, September 20, 2021 It has been one heck of a ride in US stocks since the “Covid Crash” lows. The S&P 500 index* is up just shy of 100% since March 23rd…
The Only Winning Move
– By Charles Brown, M. Brown Financial Advisors, May 18, 2021 Have you ever seen the movie War Games (1983)? The film, which stars Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, and Ally Sheedy, follows David Lightman (Broderick), a young hacker who unwittingly accesses a United States military supercomputer programmed to…
The Inflation Boogeyman
– By Charles Brown, M. Brown Financial Advisors, March 2, 2021 Inflation was on the minds of investors as February 2021 came to a close. As you can see in the chart below, inflation expectations have risen sharply from the…
Three Key Investing Charts for 2021
– By Charles Brown, M. Brown Financial Advisors, January 5, 2021 As the 2021 investing year gets going, I thought I would post a few charts* that I think are important for investors this year. The first chart is a…