The biggest driver of inflation these days is shelter, but if you own your own home and took out a mortgage more than three years ago, you’re not experiencing that. It’s the second-biggest driver that’s making us all a little crazy. Energy isn’t it anymore – it was for a while, but those prices are […]
To state the obvious theme of 2024: It’s important that your portfolio has exposure to artificial intelligence in finance. But how? We don’t pump individual stocks in this space, and you either bought Nvidia a year ago or you wish you did. Now that the easy money has been made, what’s next and should you […]
If everybody retires, nobody retires What happens when two-thirds of your country’s population is old enough to quit working? When one in five is past age 75? When the average age of the whole population – including students, toddlers and newborn babies – is 50? In Japan, they’re not asking, “What happens?” They’re asking, “What […]
Time for an ‘insur-rection’? Your homeowners insurance premium went up this year. You must’ve seen that coming, though, because this expense has been climbing for quite some time. Sure, inflation has a hand in this, but other factors are driving the cost of rising insurance premiums sharply higher. And it’s not just homeowners insurance. We […]
Can you afford $100k/year healthcare? There’s a scene in 2007’s The Bucket List in which Jack Nicholson’s character, an older man with terminal lung cancer, returns to his hospital room weak and nauseated after a rough chemo treatment. “Somewhere,” he tells his reflection in the mirror, “some lucky guy’s having a heart attack.” Thanks to […]
As we’re sure you’ve heard, the National Association of Realtors recently agreed to a settlement that would lower its agents’ fees. While this will make buying or selling a home marginally less painful, America’s housing market remains a structural cluster bomb. Confining our focus to one aspect of this maddeningly complex system isn’t helpful. Yes, […]
Last month, we ran a take-no-prisoners piece on the Tech sector’s overhyped segments. So it’s only fair – now that we’ve warned you away from investing in companies just because they have a “gee-whiz” factor – that we take a look at some more compelling stories in that space. Artificial intelligence is a solid theme, […]
A year after it was first proposed, the Let Experienced Pilots Fly Act died quietly in committee. As we reported here, it “passed its first hurdle when the bill … cleared the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in June. The LEPF Act was filed as an amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act, which sailed […]
Smith Anglin Financial is proud to announce our achievement of being ranked in this year’s InvestmentNews’ Best Places to Work for Financial Advisors for the 6th year in a row. We are honored to be recognized for being a place where advisors feel they can do their best work. This accolade is reserved for companies […]
You can’t tell from the Nasdaq index, but a lot of leading-edge technology companies aren’t making money. Even though the Nasdaq, a tech-heavy stock price benchmark, soared 43% in 2023 – far outperforming the Dow and S&P 500 indices – self-driving vehicles have stalled, electric vehicles are on the fritz, and artificial intelligence still hasn’t […]
