June 27, 2022  Inflation and Interest Rates Steal the Show  In the white-hot crucible of a market sell-off, it is perhaps wise to step back and look at the bigger picture.  Here we attempt this quite literally: the below is the graph of the Standard and Poor’s 500 index, over the last 10 years from mid-June 2012. The S&P 500…

Of Wars and of Prices Because of the uncertainty brought along by the Russian invasion of the Ukraine in late February 2022, we have been reluctant to put pen to paper. Reticent we were, but the time has come.  Thus far, this good year of Our Lord 2022, has been anything but calm and placid: it’s been volatile, with market-moving…