MacroHint

Thoughts Things have been weird. It doesn’t even feel like money is real anymore. Three trillion here, a hundred billion there; we have gotten too comfortable with these astronomically high numbers. Does anyone else feel this way? From the stimulus packages that the current administration is pushing to industry-wide company valuations growing more than their […]

Overview One of the most commonly asked questions in mankind is “how do I turn my money into more money?” “Which stocks should I buy, when should I buy them” etc… There is no straightforward answer to these questions. However, from my experience of investing over the last few years, I have some suggestions. Ownership

Investing landscape Everyone seems to be buying stocks right now—history says you shouldn’t. Unless you are trading on insider information or a stock picking whiz, investing your money in this current economic environment seems frowned upon at best. If there is anything that I have learned from the start of the pandemic it is that

Earnings overview The past few months have been filled with earnings calls and happy and sad surprises! While the price of stable stocks like Procter & Gamble or Visa do not move all that much during a short period of time (weeks), this tends to change when their quarterly earnings call comes around. Every publicly

Pricey! Have you ever looked at the price of a stock and thought “sheesh…that’s a little out of my budget right now!” I have thought that A LOT recently. This is one of the main reasons that if I’m investing at all it is because I have plenty of long-term conviction on the stock or

Is There Such Thing as Bad Profit? Is there such thing as good or bad profit? Should you invest in companies that hurt people but bring profits to shareholders? Both of these questions require us to be introspective. I have done my fair share of thinking about my investments from a morality standpoint recently. Many

Misty S. I’ve recently relocated to Austin, Texas; this is my third move since COVID-19 began, beginning from the top of the country and settling at the bottom. I’ve gone from -60F winters to nearly perpetual summers and from snow mold to cedar fever. One thing each city has had in common is a desperate

If Only They Were Public… There are certain companies that I come across daily and think “hmm…I wonder if this company is publicly traded”. Most of the time they are (or at least their parent company is) but some are not; these are private companies. In its simplest form, a private company is one that does not offer publicly

Michael L. Knowing when a corporation will attempt to acquire another company or sell a large share of its business is hard when you don’t have the resources or expert networks that the pros have. We tend to find out about deals far past the point of potentially carving out a profit. Once mergers or

Pricey! Have you ever looked at the price of a stock and thought “sheesh…that’s a little out of my budget right now!” I have thought that A LOT recently. This is one of the main reasons that if I’m investing at all it is because I have plenty of long term conviction on the stock