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To the Moon and Back It would be an understatement to say that we live in a fast-paced world.  We won’t even begin to list all the things that have happened in the first three, going on four, months of 2026.  But when history looks back on this time, the moon mission of Artemus Two […]

RIP 2025 We at Bryant & Brannock miss 2025 already.  It was a tumultuous year in many respects, but it delivered a steady supply of positive returns across a broad range of asset classes.  Global real estate was one of the only sectors that was negative for the year, and it was down by less

Watching and W(AI)ting Did you see what we did there?  We cleverly inserted AI into waiting.  OK, maybe it wasn’t that clever, but it is pretty appropriate considering how AI dominates and permeates our culture and social media, yet relatively few people really understand what AI is, how it works, who is using it or

Ducks on water If you ever watch ducks floating in a pond it looks like they are doing just that – floating.  In reality, their little webbed feet could be churning like crazy under the water.  You simply can’t tell from looking at them.  Similarly, the US economy seems to be gliding peacefully along this

Tariffs and Tumult We wanted to get the Quarterly Performance Reports out quickly this month.  We are only about ten days into April and the index numbers from this past quarter are already looking stale and dated.  Obviously, there is a lot of volatility in the markets, driven almost entirely by the tariffs and the

Trump 2.0 We usually try to think of a theme to frame our quarterly discussions about the markets and the economy.  This time around, nothing trumps Trump.  He won the election, and the Republicans control the House of Representatives and the Senate.  They have an opportunity to make sweeping changes, and the early signs are

Please, sir, I want some more. The Oliver Twist fans out there will probably recognize this line from the classic Charles Dickens novel.  Young Oliver requested some more gruel on his first day at the orphanage.  He didn’t get more; in fact, he got a nasty reprimand and was treated like an ingrate and a

The Three Rs Growing up, there was an expression that I heard often and never really paid close attention to.  The expression was that kids went to school to learn the three Rs – ‘reading, writing and rithmatic’.  I guess I never saw it written out, and for many years this just seemed like common

Hurry Up and Wait Towards the end of 2023, many economists and market watchers were expecting that the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates 4-6 times in 2024.  The Fed itself even projected that 2-3 rate cuts were likely, but consistently maintained that any changes to interest rates would be data dependent.  Many expected that

A Matter of Timing – Fifteen Years and Counting People love a good adage.  “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”  “The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.”  “A penny saved is a penny earned.”  “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”  “Strike while the iron