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Chart of the Day: Tax More/Less Get Less/More

Today’s Chart of the Day highlights The Laffer Curve, an economic theory created by Arthur Laffer in 1974. It proposes that there is a maximum amount..

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Chart of the Day - Lower Rates Don't Always Means Lower Mortgage Rates

Today’s Chart of the Day was shared by my colleague, and fellow Portfolio Manger, Angie Parsons. It's a from Bloomberg article showing the changes in..

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The average performance before, during and after a recession shown in pink, yellow and orange respectively. The performance after is much greater than during or before.

Chart of the Day: Positive Returns During Recessions

Today’s Chart of the Day and commentary is from Angie Parsons, my colleague and fellow Portfolio Manager. The chart from BlackRock shows stock..

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Chart of the Day: More Investments = Less Risk (To a Point)

Today’s Chart of the Day spotlights an important investment concept which was pioneered by Harry Markowitz, a Nobel Prize winner and pioneer of the..

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Chart of the Day: Work from Home Figures Sticky at 30%

Today’s Chart of the Day from Wolfstreet shows that Work from Home, a.k.a. WFH, is getting “sticky” at 30% after peaking at 60% during the pandemic.

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Chart of Day - Median Age of Homebuyers

Today’s Chart of the Day uses data from the National Association of Realtors compiled by Torsten Sølk with Apollo, showing the history of the median..

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Map of US with orange highlights from light to dark with the darker the shade indicates the higher number of insurance non-renewals. Map of the US with blue highlights from light to dark illustrating the 3-year insurance premium change with the darker the shade indicating the higher the increase.

Chart of the Day: Higher Home-Owner Insurance

Today’s two charts illustrate that Florida continues to struggle with increasingly more expensive homeowner's insurance.

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Bar graph illustrating cash vs 60/40 portfolio results over 1, 2, 5, 10, 15 and 20 years. Red bars indicate the percentage of time the 60/40 outperformed cash, while black bars show the percentage of time that cash underperformed during that same time period.

Chart of the Day: Cash Can Cost

Today's Chart of the Day, from BlackRock, illustrates the potential downside of staying in cash for too long. It highlights the excess returns of a..

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Chart of the Day: 75% Use Prime

Today’s Chart of the Day from Chartr shows that over 75% of American’s are using Amazon Prime as of 2024. Amazon is now the 4th largest company in..

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