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“The game is old but the players are always new.” Fred Kelly, The Psychology of Speculation (1930)
It has been a while since we have experienced a traditional recession and bear market.…
The tale of the tape…The world in numbers…
The stork is not working overtime: 10.6 million – the number of babies born in…
Revisiting the 4% rule…
You have saved diligently for 20, 30, even 40 years. Now comes the big question:…
Back to normal! Uh, excuse me, what again is normal?…
Now that we are getting back to some semblance of normal, we have all sorts…
As they say in Texas, “That was a long bus ride for not very much.” …
I am talking about the value of making market predictions. The yield curve (see chart)…
If you’re right more than 50% of the time… you’re lying…
Not sure exactly who said this, but they were talking about making predictions. It’s just…
One thing you can always count on…
Is the delight of a chocolate recipe extraordinaire. Each year since 1998, we have scoured…
Not back in the office yet…
According to Google’s Community Mobility data, we are visiting supermarkets and drugstores at the same…
Hanson + Doremus’ Vermont City Marathon Relay Team
Team Hanson+Doremus had a great time running in the 2021 Vermont City Marathon Relay! The…
How worried are we about the world?…
How worried should we be? The list of potential investing headwinds is growing. The economy…
“Things are hopeless but not serious.” (Viennese Satirist, Karl Kraus)
The Social Security Trustees recently released their Annual Report August 31, which warned that the…
Back to the office…Remedial education required
We here at Hanson+Doremus try to be “impactful” and “value-add.” We are all about “big…
A quarter century on…any words of wisdom?
We have been writing this newsletter for 25 years now. We are not market forecasters.…
Can America Keep Up?
Recent global events, both economic and political, have us thinking a lot about the United…
How long can profitability stay this good?…
Corporate profits still are rising, and that’s good news in a world with plenty to…
Still hanging in there, better than one might expect…
The first thing that is apparent today is that Western sanctions against Russia have not…
