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2023 Market Review

2023 Market Review

by David Young, President It has been quite the year. It is a good thing that we don’t believe in forecasts. I’ve written a lot about how often most market forecasts are wrong. I regularly mock the talking heads in the media because they are consistently...
Blink and You Could Miss

Blink and You Could Miss

by Nathan White, CIO It was an amazing end year-end rally in everything.  Throughout much of 2023, the prevailing narrative suggested that a select few mega-cap tech stocks were concealing an underlying fragility in the market.  This portrayal proved accurate during...
Debt Pains

Debt Pains

by Nathan White, CIO The biggest question right now is if the economy will remain resilient in the face of high interest rates.  We are caught in a debt trap and the inflationary response was a symptom of the underlying problem. Imagine the economy as a...
Stocks Up Bonds Down

Stocks Up Bonds Down

By Dave Young, President Fall is one of my favorite times of the year. The temperatures move down to comfortable from the high temperatures of summer. Football season is in full swing, the leaves in the mountains are spectacular, and hunting season is here. That is...
Back to Schwab. . .

Back to Schwab. . .

by KaNeil Menlove, VP Operations Hello everyone! After working ten years at Paragon, I was asked to write my first newsletter article. I was joking around with everyone in the office and told them that it might be another ten years before I write my second newsletter...