Even if well telegraphed by regular news coverage, yesterday’s invasion of Ukraine by Russia has introduced new uncertainty into the market environment, causing some near-term turbulence. We thought it worth sending a quick note.   While it would be nice to avoid them altogether, first we’ll just offer the reminder that periods of market pain and…

  “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.” Albert Einstein   Well, this past year may have been a step up from 2020, but we’re not quite out of the soup yet.  It’s more than reasonable that folks are feeling a little worn out by the constant…

“No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future.”  – Ian H. Wilson, former GE executive Uncertainty, or risk, isn’t a bad thing.  It is simply the reality that any given situation has more than one potential outcome,…

The thought of summing up these last eighteen months in a short letter is laughable.  There are just way too many layers to this beast.  From the first few months of 2020 when our lives and the market were upended by a microscopic force of nature to the now welcome return to an emerging semblance…

For ages, we’ve rung bells to mark significant moments.   In medieval times, bells alerted residents of storms, fires, wars and other events, and for centuries church belfries have invited congregants to gather in worship or prayer.  It’s had its place in markets too—for the last 150 years a ringing bell has marked the opening and…

Good afternoon!  We’d wager a bet that many of you (non-video gamers) hadn’t heard of GameStop until recently, but the company has certainly captured national attention in the past few weeks as the stock soared on what in market speak is called a massive “short squeeze.”   For the sake of brevity, we’ll summarize by…

Extraordinary is an apt, though perhaps too kind, word for 2020.  I’m sure we all could come up with a few choice words to describe the past twelve months.  It certainly wasn’t ordinary and it had plenty of “extra”, so I guess we’ll go with that one for now.  Extraordinary is also a good description…

“Sail forth—steer for the deep waters only” – Walt Whitman I recently read “The Shallows” by Nicholas Carr, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize ten years ago and for me it couldn’t have been more timely as we head into the breathless media coverage of the upcoming election. A mash up of brain science and…

Greetings from the Tschetter Group on this last official day of summer.

Warm summer greetings! Some days it feels like six months and some days six years, but we are indeed now just over halfway through this historic year of 2020. So much for perfect (20/20) vision. Who could’ve guessed what life and the market would’ve presented to us in the coming months when we welcomed this new year and decade back in January?