Dennis Fassett

12,463 13,264 Recognize those numbers? I know that some of you do. And those do should be fatally disappointed with them. Why? Because they represent the opening and closing Dow Jones Industrial Average numbers for 2007. 2007 opened at 12,463 2007 closed at 13,264 A whopping 801 point increase for the year. An increase of […]

A friend of mine emailed me last week with an article that forecast more bad news. And he, I think tongue in cheek, suggested that I must be doing cartwheels because the bad news for the housing market was great news to me. That got me thinking again about the power of perspective. You see, a […]

I’m sure that you have seen the news reports out of Ohio during the last week. First one, then a second Federal Judge dismissed foreclosure proceedings because the lenders “failed to prove that they owned the properties they were trying to seize”. That’s a complicated way of saying that the paperwork is screwed up. (If […]

This is the performance of your retirement account while you have been investing in the stock market over the last six months. Look familiar?    Take a closer look at the chart – over the last six months the market has been down – despite those huge peaks that you see. That means a negative ROI – […]

I have received some interesting responses to my “10 Things” post. When I wrote it my personal feeling was that there would be a massive “piling on” because things seem to be so bad here, and that I would be taken to task because I went so easy on the area. To my surprise quite […]