Bill Bullock
2021 Third Quarter
“Inflation is taxation without legislation.” – Milton Friedman In blackjack lingo, I believe you will find that the third quarter was a...
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Bill Bullock
- Jun 30, 2021
- 3 min
2021 Second Quarter
With the Standard and Poor’s 500 index up over 90% from the low reached last March, the stock market has me wondering what is in store...
Bill Bullock
- Mar 31, 2021
- 3 min
2021 First Quarter
What a crazy twelve months it has been in the stock market. Small-cap stocks as represented by the Russell 2000 are up 94.85%. Large-cap...
Bill Bullock
- Dec 31, 2020
- 5 min
2020 Fourth Quarter
How in the world could stock indexes be up in the year 2020 with so much misery in the US and around the world? There have been 399,000...
Bill Bullock
- Sep 29, 2020
- 3 min
2020 Third Quarter
With the S&P 500 up 8.93% and the Russell 2000 (small-cap index) and the MSCI EAFE (foreign index) up 4.93% and 4.80% respectively, the...
Bill Bullock
- Jun 29, 2020
- 2 min
2020 Second Quarter
The underlying story this past quarter has been the way the US stock market rallied in the face of uncertainty. A lot of uncertainty....
Bill Bullock
- Mar 30, 2020
- 6 min
2020 First Quarter
When I visited my accountant in the middle of March to discuss my corporate tax return, he asked me how things were going. I grumbled...
Bill Bullock
- Dec 31, 2019
- 5 min
2019 Fourth Quarter
On Christmas Eve of 2018 the S&P 500 was down close to 20% from its market peak. With corporations continuing to report strong earnings...
Bill Bullock
- Sep 30, 2019
- 2 min
2019 Third Quarter
You know the story: The stock market has been growing for the past decade and it is “due” for a significant drop in the next couple of...
Bill Bullock
- Jun 30, 2019
- 3 min
2019 Second Quarter
The most influential storyline that helped boost market returns over the past three months must be the news that the Federal Reserve will...
Bill Bullock
- Mar 31, 2019
- 3 min
2019 First Quarter
The post-Christmas Eve rally continued into our first quarter this year with solid percentage gains across the board. Our domestic and...
Bill Bullock
- Dec 31, 2018
- 5 min
2018 Fourth Quarter
“Jack did more for American investors as a whole than any individual I’ve known. A lot of Wall Street is devoted to charging a lot for...
Bill Bullock
- Sep 30, 2018
- 2 min
2018 Third Quarter
“OCTOBER: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April,...
Bill Bullock
- Jun 30, 2018
- 2 min
2018 Second Quarter
With all of the talk of tariffs and trade wars, the large-cap stock index - as represented by the S&P 500 - and the small-cap index - as...
Bill Bullock
- Mar 31, 2018
- 3 min
2018 First Quarter
You would have to go back to October of 2016 to find the last month the Schwab Total Stock Market Index fund (SWTSX) had a negative...
Bill Bullock
- Dec 31, 2017
- 4 min
2017 Fourth Quarter
I hope your new year is off to a healthy and happy beginning. The “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” was signed into law by President Trump on...
Bill Bullock
- Sep 30, 2017
- 2 min
2017 Third Quarter
I was a senior in high school in my introduction to economics class. My econ teacher asked me to check the status of the stock market as...
Bill Bullock
- Jun 30, 2017
- 2 min
2017 Second Quarter
Professor Robert Shiller, the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, said during a May 24th CNBC interview that bonds are a...
Bill Bullock
- Mar 31, 2017
- 2 min
2017 First Quarter
“Far more money has been lost by investors trying to anticipate corrections, than lost in the corrections themselves.” – Peter Lynch,...
Bill Bullock
- Dec 31, 2016
- 5 min
2016 Fourth Quarter
"I see no reason, despite the fact we've had two sizable bear markets in the past 15 years and a nice run from the March 2009 lows, to...
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