They say April showers bring May flowers. After a lot of showers and storms over the past year, flowers are starting to bloom and things are looking a lot better.
2019 Q1 Economic Update
April brings showers, baseball, tax deadlines, and historically,the best month of the year for the S&P 500 Index (over the last 20 years). The S&P 500 had its best first quarter since 1998. And in March we celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the current bull market.
2020 Q2 Economic Update
We are at the midpoint of 2020, and if you had fallen asleep at the beginning of the year and just woken up, you might think it's been a real snoozer – but it would be an understatement to say this has been one of the more chaotic six-month periods in history.
2020 Q4 Economic Update
A significant inflection point across many aspects of American society, 2020 will certainly be a year that is studied for decades to come. So much of what transpired reveals the fragility of our species and our democracy, yet it also highlights the resilience of humanity and the genius of the American experiment, imperfect as they may be. To truly live means to evolve. And we are evolving.