by Gary Gordon | Apr 22, 2021
The United States government raised taxes to finance the debt that accrued in World War I and World War II. Today, we are not engaged in a military intervention of monumental magnitude. However, the public debt-to-GDP is greater now than at any other point in American...
by Gary Gordon | Apr 19, 2021
Private money management firms often sell at a multiple of revenue. A frequently talked about metric? Price-to-revenue. For example, a wealth management company that generated $1,000,000 over the last year might be valued at 2.25x, or $2,250,000. At least in the...
by Gary Gordon | Apr 14, 2021
On April 13, 2021, the S&P 500 SPDR Trust (SPY) closed above its opening price for the 13th consecutive session. That has never happened in the 28-year history of the exchange-traded fund. Without question, enthusiasm for stocks is feverish. But is it rational?...
by Gary Gordon | Apr 7, 2021
When does extraordinary excess become visible? In hindsight. Consider the stock market at the start of 2000. Despite ridiculous valuations, scores of profitless IPOs, and an absence of common sense, few seemed to recognize the risks ahead of time. The S&P 500...
by Gary Gordon | Mar 31, 2021
Homes, stocks, junk bonds, you name it. Assets are ridiculously frothy everywhere you turn. The craziness is hardly confined to traditional Wall Street assets, however. Day-trading teenagers with social media cache are getting “rich” on digital NFT Nike...
