Time can be a funny thing depending on your perspective. When you’re experiencing an event, or a saga, time may seem to slow down. Nothing can expedite the issue to its conclusion, the clock just has to continue ticking. When you’re merely an observer to said saga, you might marvel how quickly time passes. Learning of updates can only prompt a “Wow! Is that still going on?” We say this because a few years back we wrote a story about a client who was tied up in a seemingly never-ending estate battle with their sibling. We received an update recently.…

There’s a never-ending cast of characters out in the world who have big opinions on the direction of financial markets. They might run their own newsletters or even their own funds. A number of them are permanently bearish. It’s a way of life and they can’t see things any other way (or their wallets don’t allow them to). They do fill a niche, milking unfortunate souls of their cash or delivering them returns that can only be defended if those souls exist in a permanently dark headspace where the end is always around the corner. It would be fine if…