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With the campaign season in full swing there has been a lot to catch our attention lately. Mitt Romney has been under particular scrutiny as he is one of the front runners for the Republican Party’s nomination to face President…
A central discussion in 2012 will be the possibility of inflationary and deflationary economic outcomes around the world. Several of the deflationary threats that made news in 2011 continue to raise significant questions as we move in to 2012. Potential…
As we look towards the New Year, we pause to reflect on all the events of the past 12 months. Financial Symmetry has covered several current events on our blog throughout 2011, and here are what we think the Top…
A populist movement called Occupy Wall Street was born out of frustration over a decade’s long trend of growing wealth and income disparity between the very rich and the rest of the country. The anger is focused at corporate leaders…
Would you believe that just 10 years ago, Congressional approval ratings hovered around 65%? Today, partly due to the way the debt ceiling debate was handled over the summer and the failure by the SuperCommitte that came out of that…
The European Debt Fiasco has dominated headlines of late, so we wanted to provide perspective on the potential outcomes and how they may affect your investments. The Road Ahead The debate centers around the relationship between the strong and weak…
As we pointed out in out our post on the cost of health care, getting healthcare costs under control is by far the number one thing we need to do for the long term fiscal health of our nation. The…
In a previous post, we discussed the current under building of residential housing units and how the longer that goes on the more demand for new home construction builds. A similar situation is occurring with our vehicle fleet in this…
When it comes to investment markets, determining “The Fairest of them All” depends not just on where you are investing, but also on the initial conditions. We’re going to look at two different time periods to get a sense of…
As we saw with our last post, residential construction is far and away the biggest economic problem for the US right now. So it only stands to reason that the economy isn’t likely to get back to full strength until…
