stock market – MD Update

At a Crossroads

February 1, 2021February 17, 2021 Scott Neal $, 1.9, 70% success, absence of trump, agenda of national survival, American prophecy, Biden, Biden 's $1.9 trillion dollar request, Biden administration, boom generation, boomer, Boomer script, brand-new culture war, Care act, Congress raise, COVID-induced, COVID-induced recession, crossroad, culture war, dollar request, generous relief, gray champion, history turn, Joe Biden, Joe Biden 's policy, long-lived life, mark of a true elder statesman, maximum danger, missionary elder, new strain, new strain of the virus, next Gray Champion, overwhelm post-inauguration sentiment, PE, PE ratio, post-inauguration, post-inauguration sentiment, presence of Biden, pro-choice secularist, pro-life evangelical, rally, rd turn, recovery, Saecula, Scott Neal, significant new fiscal stimulus, steady decline of employment, stock, stock market, strong stock market, time of maximum danger, true elder statesman, typical business cycle, unfamiliar challenge, unfamiliar challenge of self-restraint, unraveling-era, unraveling-era skirmish, vaccine, vaccine rollout, virus, Woody Brock, young millennial

While a few people have told me this month that they are afraid of a Biden administration, the overwhelming post-inauguration

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Where Do We Go from Here?

December 1, 2020February 17, 2021 Scott Neal -contribution limit, 70½, B., Biden, Biden victory, calendar move, Care act, catch-up limit, contribution, COVID, Dr. Woody Brock, duration of the market, employer 's match, entire employer 's match, entire final paycheck, financial house, firm 's sale, FOMO, free money, inherited IRAs, interest rate, IRA, IRA contribution, K., late market move, let 's keep, minimum amount necessary, owner of inherited IRAs, paycheck, plan administrator, polarized electorate, prospect of future earnings, QCD, required minimum distribution, RMD, RMD wrinkle, RMDs, Roth contribution, Roth IRA, Scott Neal, smart folk, steep sell-off, stock, stock market, tax year, tax-year contribution, tortuous decline, traditional IRA, trap of FOMO, upward bias, v-shaped recovery, wall street analyst, wash sale, year-end

For the nation, 2020 has been one of the most difficult years in memory. We are grappling with COVID and

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Trumponomics

December 1, 2016March 23, 2018 Scott Neal administration-in-waiting, aforementioned tax plan, ardent publisher, basket of unknowables, big deficit, bond, bond market, budget reconciliation, economic policy uncertainty, economist, emerge economy cause problem, fiscal policy, fiscal policy of Reagan, full replacement of the affordable Care act, government bond yield, high bracket, historical rate of return of security, hoped-for stimulus, impact of decline rate, improve live standard, income deferral, indicator of the future, low top tax bracket, major concern of a trump administration, market hate, new round of uncertainty, next recession, policy priority of the trump administration-in-waiting, policy uncertainty, post-election, post-election ride, potential benefit of a stimulus, pretty well-educated guess, proactive risk control, proper trade deal, protectionist strategy, ramped-up, ramped-up growth, rapid rise of government bond yield, Reagan, Reagan playbook, reduced regulation, reimbursement rate, rise dollar, Scott Neal, spend measure, stock, stock market, stock market 's wild post-election ride, sufficient growth, tax plan, tax practitioner, tax save maneuver, trump, trump administration, trump administration-in-waiting, Trumponomics, uncertainty, underperform stock, unknowables, well-educated guess, work American

It’s still a bit early to say much, but our ardent publisher has asked for a take on Trumponomics and

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Déjà Vu, All Over Again

December 1, 2015January 20, 2017 Scott Neal 30 year U.S. treasury, 65 % bull, aggregate earnings, bad quarter, big year-over-year decline, bullish consensus, contrary indicator, Déjà Vu, downright alarm, earnings, exception of interest rate, extraordinary stock market growth, financial plan, fundamental driver, fundamental driver of the extraordinary stock market growth, future of the stock market, GDP, GDP growth, growth rate, growth rate of aggregate earnings, growth rate of earnings, historical index data, impend rate hike, interest rate, investment, investor psychology, level of aggregate earnings, level of optimism, long run return, long time reader, long-dated, long-dated bond, magnitude of stock repurchase, mean reversion, member of the fed, money manager, non-fundamental factor, portfolio, primary impact of GDP growth, quarter of the S&P 500 company, rate of return, run return, S&P 500, S&P 500 company, Scott Neal, sentiment, slow erosion of expected return, slowdown, stock, stock market, stock market growth, stock market rally, stock repurchase, strategy, survey of advisor, time reader, variable, year-over-year decline

As of this writing, the stock market has just produced one of its worst quarters (Q3) in a very long

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Looking Back, Looking Forward

June 1, 2015 Scott Neal aforementioned fundamental driver, aggregate earnings, baby-boomers demand dividend, broad index, buy-backs, concept of mean reversion, crash, current 20+, Dr. Woody Brock, Dr. Woody Brock point, earnings, estimate call, financial plan, growth rate of aggregate earnings, growth rate of earnings, impend stock market crash, interest rate, investor, legendary stock picker, magnitude of stock repurchase, mean reversion, mean-reverting, mean-reverting development, moral of the story, nominal price of the stock, normal investor, picker, portfolio, rational prediction, real term, remarkable stock market, remarkable stock market of the past century, repurchase, reversion, Scott Neal, share buy-backs, share repurchase, stock, stock market, stock market crash, stock market return, stock picker, stock repurchase, sustained low level of growth, ten-bagger, unexpected rise, wealth growth

Back in the ‘80s, legendary stock picker Peter Lynch was famous for looking for those stocks that he thought would

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Investing in the New Year

October 1, 2013 Scott Neal 10 year average, 10 year average of the S&P 500 index, absolute return strategy, asset, asset allocator, bond, bond value, buy-and-hold investor, close net asset value, current bull market, discount brokerage firm, Doug short, downside, downside risk, ETF, experience self, father of behavioral economics, grow universe, grow universe of exchange, incur transaction cost, interest rate rise, investment, investment of respectable size, investor, long bull market, loss ring, market fall, memory of risk, midst of the long bull market, miss market gain, move counter, movement of an index, new year, past gain, portfolio, pretty wide array, pretty wide array of ETF 's, Princeton professor of psychology, remember self, respectable size, return strategy, risk tolerance, S&P 500, S&P 500 index, Scott Neal, self, serious downturn, short term bond, stock, stock market, term bond, traditional openend, turn of the calendar, vast majority of advisor, wealth preservation

According to Daniel Kahneman, Princeton professor of psychology and the so-called father of behavioral economics, it is our “remembering self”

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And Then There Was the FED

May 1, 2013March 28, 2017 Scott Neal $, $85 billion-a-month, 85, able borrower, acknowledgement mean, additive component, additive component of GDP, amount of bond, baby boomer enter retirement, billion-a-month, bond, bond buy program, component of GDP, economic policy risk assessment, employment data, fed, fed 's action, fed buy, GDP, get economy, huge impact, huge overhang, huge overhang of the as-yet, issue reserve, long term interest rate, market risk assessment, mid-‘90, move mean, Obamacare, open market, policy risk assessment, potential of a huge impact, pretty serious storm, primacy of GDP growth, principal driver, principal driver of future prosperity, rapid rise of the stock market, result of sequestration, risk of over-simplification, Scott Neal, spree, stock market, unimplemented provision, unimplemented provision of ObamaCare, unusual stimulus

At this writing the Federal Reserve has just announced a strategy for unwinding the $85 billion-a-month buying spree. What will

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On Alert

April 1, 2013March 28, 2017 MD-Update Staff 6.5% unemployment, alert, artificial fuel, asset, asset price, B., catastrophe hit, comparative result, comparative result of operation, complacency, corporate profitability, correction, current price level, current price level of stock, defensive readiness, evidence of a bubble, fed, financial news channel, full employment, fundamental perspective, future financial well-being, heightened state of defensive readiness, infusion, infusion of liquidity, Lance Roberts, level of profitability, middle of the cold war, monetary tool, Mr, Mr. B., Mr. Bernanke, plausible comparison, profitability, readiness drill, real threat, record high, relative growth trend, relative growth trend of profit, rise asset price, S&P 500, Scott Neal, significant rally, square ball drop, stock, stock market, threat, venerable index, wall of worry, worry end

My military service happened right in the middle of the Cold War. Serving with the Army’s 1st Armored Division in

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