Steve Butler

With the market finally delivering its long-overdue correction, it’s comforting to recall Warren Buffett’s statement: “Stock prices rarely reflect the true value of companies. When it does happen, it’s an...

Any time the stock market reaches all-time highs, the contributing factors are varied and their influences are impossible to measure. What we do know is that American companies for several...

Forty years ago, I owned an interest in a local bar that immediately showed indications of getting ripped off by the manager and employees. I hired a moonlighting IRS agent...

The Disney character Uncle Scrooge McDuck must be happily swimming around in his money bin these days thanks to our economy in its record eighth year of expansion. While there...

With all the discussion about the Republican tax reform efforts, I have yet to hear any concerns about how the increased tax on mortgage interest and property taxes might affect...

When I was about 8 years old, I thought it would be interesting to throw rocks at a hornets’ nest to see what would happen. The result was a wall...

A concept called “self-continuity” can have an impact on personal financial decisions. What is it, exactly? It’s a measure of how our lives in the future may change from the...

When I’m not reading magazines in the supermarket checkout line, I tend toward trade journals like “Pensions & Investments” — a font of juicy industry gossip of interest to people...

As my summer vacation dragged into its last week I had run out of beach-time reading, but fortunately I had packed a copy of “Asset Allocation” by Roger Gibson. The...

We’re coming up on the “summer doldrum” phenomenon whereby the stock market offers a long history of a downdraft at some point over the summer months. A quick look at...