Some Thoughts on Recent Market Volatility

by Don Gould The following post is from an email sent to Gould Asset Management clients on August 24, 2015.  It is shared here for the benefit of our blog readers, in hopes it provides some helpful context for understanding the market’s recent volatility. As you are...

Puerto Rico – Munis on the Brink

by Daniel Gould Recent announcements about Puerto Rico’s runaway debt crisis have thrust the island territory’s long-running economic woes into the national spotlight. In late June, Governor Alejandro Padilla García warned that the U.S. commonwealth was alarmingly...

Rising Interest Rates: The Glass Half Full View

by John DeBiase and Don Gould Following last Friday’s employment report, which indicated increasing upward pressure on wages, anticipation of an initial rate hike from the Federal Reserve grew stronger. The consensus expectation is for an increase in the federal funds...