by Emergent Team | Jan 6, 2021 | Economics, Investing, Saving
“Small pleasures, small pleasuresWho would deny us these?”– Oliver Twist, It’s a Fine Life Small pleasures, small pleasures, such as earning interest from bonds. What happened to those days, when one could retire and count on some sort of fixed income from...
by Emergent Team | Dec 8, 2020 | Economics, Investing
It’s pretty likely you’ve either heard the news somewhere or someone has told you that the Dow Jones hit a record high of 30,000 this week. For the year, it is up around 4%. Given the fact that the world has endured 10 years of torture in a single year, that number...
by Emergent Team | Oct 22, 2020 | Economics, Investing, Saving
If there was a fix, we weren’t in on it,” said Richard Melito, father to the boxer nicknamed “The Bull.” Although not quite the same as a boxing match, we can be assured that the fight in the bond markets is fixed too. And in a simpler way. No right hook or uppercut...
by Emergent Team | Sep 18, 2020 | Economics
As the nights are beginning to bring some frosty chill and the days are becoming depressingly shorter, we are reminded that winter is on its way here. Yes, we still have fall to get through, but it will not be long before we trade our shorts and t-shirts for jeans and...
by Emergent Team | Jul 27, 2020 | Economics, Financial Planning
Two of the hardest questions to answer for any person: when to invest their money, and when to buy a house. Both the stock market and housing market have unpredictable natures, giving people qualms about jumping in given the risks. Yet when it comes to the housing...
by Emergent Team | Jul 21, 2020 | Economics, Entrepreneurship
As the Covid-19 pandemic raged throughout the spring closing down businesses and essentially our lives, there was always the hope that as the virus began to slowly subside, the country could rebound and open up quickly enough to avoid any catastrophic damage. And for...
by Emergent Team | Jul 7, 2020 | Economics, Financial Planning
Mozart. Sachertorte. The Alps. There’s a lot to love about Austria: an 85% total return on a bond in two years is just another one of them… Let’s say someone wanted to borrow a thousand dollars from you with interest, and when you ask when they plan to give the...
by Emergent Team | Jun 24, 2020 | Economics, Investing
Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.-Werner Heisenberg A few weeks ago, I was reminded of a quantum mechanics principal named the “uncertainty principal.” This principal, introduced by Heisenberg in 1927, states that you cannot measure...
by Emergent Team | May 27, 2020 | Economics
With every conflict, there are always casualties. As the nation and the world continue to slowly emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, there will no doubt be many changes in our lives that might be permanent. As this is true for people, this is also true for many...
by Emergent Team | May 22, 2020 | Economics, Investing
Think of a stock as a “slice” of a company, a piece of ownership of it. What goes into the value of that stock? What do we expect it to deliver to us, as an investor, over time? How do we figure out, as investors, whether to pursue stocks that pay dividends...
by Emergent Team | May 13, 2020 | Economics
As many states across the U.S. are beginning to slowly re-open, one issue that has plagued the mind of small-business owners is that of customers: even if these small stores and restaurants begin to re-open, how many customers will they have? As small-business owners...
by Emergent Team | May 1, 2020 | Economics, Investing
Diving into a pool without a life jacket is not very risky; however, jumping into the cold waters of the Atlantic with no land in sight and no life jacket is a whole different story. The coronavirus pandemic, which has brought many businesses to a standstill across...
by Emergent Team | Apr 30, 2020 | Economics, Entrepreneurship
Wednesday, April 29, 2020. Our CEO of Emergent, Alex Urpi, and our Chief Investment Officer, Xavier Urpi, had the opportunity to speak about business resources and economic implications related to the pandemic shutdown on the I Love Cville show with host Jerry Miller....
by Emergent Team | Apr 29, 2020 | Economics, Geopolitics
Go into a store and pick up any object, and there’s a good chance it will say “Made in China”. U.S. manufacturers have been producing goods in China for about the last 30 years due to cheaper costs. Convincing US businesses to return production to America has been a...
by Emergent Team | Apr 24, 2020 | Economics, Technology
Who owns space? Who owns space? Who owns the moon? Or do we refer to space as the final frontier for pioneers of human experience to be able to realize their dreams of economizing resources and providing for earth’s inhabitants? None of these questions have clear...
by Emergent Team | Apr 15, 2020 | Economics
The Federal Reserve has stepped in and single-handedly salvaged the Globe’s liquidity and the US fixed income market. For the first time ever, they have moved into corporate bonds, ETFs, and high yield bonds in a manner that has never occurred before. Their...
