…Calmly observing the changing world

Argentina is a beautiful country, but its government is anything but. Last week, the government of Argentina decided that it wanted to own an oil company, so it took one.  Nevermind that 57% of the company was already owned by the Spanish oil company Repsol.  President Kirschner’s I am not a thug comments were not exactly [...]

The stock market is a rough place, as it proved to us again today. It’s almost enough to make you want to swear off the markets for good, and invest in something guaranteed to pay you a 3% return. A lot of investors felt that way as they pushed yields to what are truly ridiculous [...]