Earlier this month, I headed from Virginia to Florida on the Amtrak auto train. I highly recommend this option instead of ...

One of the things I’ve learned after more than two decades of SIC is that the conference doesn’t really end when the final session wraps up. In some ways, that’s when the real work begins. It’s ...

The 1985 classic Pee Wee’s Big Adventure is one of my favorite movies. In it, there’s a scene where Pee Wee and Simone sit ...

John invites a guest author to write this week when he is focused on SIC. David Bahnsen of The Bahnsen Group explores two ...

After running my stock screen for the week, I did something that I rarely do—I started checking out some ETFs.

Like many of you, I am inundated with information. Most of it is not useful or repetitive. Even filtering for relevant content and source, it feels like I’m getting many times more data than even 10 ...

I started in the financial publishing industry as a “temp” back in 2011. I spent my first week learning about the industry, and the writing style and routine of my assigned senior editor—the income ...

Let’s rewind the clock to late 2007. It was quite a tumultuous time as there was a lot of competing views about what would happen. I wasn’t terribly confused as I was convinced there would be a ...

As noted a few weeks ago, we get conflicting data that must not be extrapolated. The motto of the US Marines is a good one for all of us for the coming years: improvise, adapt and overcome. I would ...

The old cliché: do you see the glass as half-full or half-empty? Depending on what you’re asking about, this can be a highly personal question. One person’s half-empty is another person’s half-full.