The Peak Perspective

The Earnings Bar is High for Corporate America

The Earnings Bar is High for Corporate America Stocks entered a cyclical bear market in 2022, and perhaps for good reason. Yes, interest rates were...
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Quarterly Client Letter: Q2 2024

Quarterly Client Letter: Q2 2024 When you find a truly wonderful business, stick with it. Patience pays, and one wonderful business can offset the many...
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Hardware is Eating the World

Hardware is Eating the World “While the hardware and software layers in technology are mutually dependent, the location of talent and resources across their respective...
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My Personal Approach to Budgeting

My Personal Approach to Budgeting For years, I struggled with implementing an effective budgeting tool, drowning in the minutia of expense categorization. Should Chipotle go...
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Inherited IRAs and the 10-Year Rule: Beware of Potential Tax Consequences in the Future

Inherited IRAs and the 10-Year Rule: Beware of Potential Tax Consequences in the Future If you have inherited an IRA after 2019 from a non-spouse,...
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Quarterly Client Letter: Q1 2024

Therefore, we are prepared for a very broad range of interest rates, from 2% to 8% or even more, with equally wide-ranging economic outcomes —...
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Stock Review: Fortinet (FTNT)

Stock Review: Fortinet (FTNT) We recently added Fortinet (FTNT) to our model stock portfolio*. FTNT is a leading cybersecurity company based in the U.S. with over 700,000...
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What Is Money For?

What Is Money For? Shelby Cullom Davis got his start in the stock market in the early 1940’s on the heels of the Great Depression....
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Death, Taxes, and Identity Theft

Death, Taxes, and Identity Theft Although Benjamin Franklin’s famous quote on the certainty of death and taxes didn’t include the risk of identity theft, it...
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Quarterly Client Letter: Q4 2023

“I think that a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time.” Charlie Munger, 2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting Investing in financial...
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Obsessing Over Interest Rates

Obsessing Over Interest Rates “The theory of interest bears a close resemblance to the theory of prices, of which, in fact, it is a special...
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You Only Have to Get Rich Once

You Only Have to Get Rich Once Charlie Munger recently appeared on the Acquired Podcast. Needless to say, we are fans of Munger and recommend...
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