Happy Friday! Last week’s letter came just before Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The full text  is nice light reading at 335 pages. Not likely many of us have added this to the bedside table yet, but we’re guessing you’ve seen plenty of news and takes on it over the past week. Again, we’re…

Good morning! Last week, dinner tables—this week, metabolism. The broad scientific definition of metabolism is a set of processes within a living organism that occurs in order to sustain life. For us, we usually refer to the word as how our bodies turn food into useful energy and we’ve been stuck on this idea as a helpful analogy to…

Good Thursday morning, the first day of Spring if you can believe it! And yes, we’re talking about dinner tables. They’ve taken on a different character and quality over the past few weeks haven’t they? One week ago, our family got word that our kids would be out of school, effective immediately and we’re settling into a new…

Good Monday morning (again)! Believe us, we’d rather NOT be sending market updates weekly, but things are moving quickly and we hope we can be a helpful voice in the midst of all of this. Our  last two updates  touched on coronavirus as its spread seemed to spark the market turbulence that is now entering its third…

Good Monday morning!  We sent a note on coronavirus and market turbulence mid-week last week.  We noted that the news may get worse before it gets better and since then we’ve certainly seen more market declines and headlines that tempt us to fear and frazzle. This one touches each of our day to day lives in a way unlike…

Since we sent our 2020 market outlook letter just over a month ago, investors have added coronavirus to the list of near-term worries. We certainly don’t blame anyone for feeling unsettled about this global—though still mostly limited to China—health threat and we have plenty of compassion for those directly affected. Prior to this week, global markets had…