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...
