by lindapowell | Mar 14, 2017 | Articles, Kristin's Chronicles
I’ve been asked if we’re in an investment bubble. One thing about bubbles, it’s really hard to tell if you’re in one until it bursts. And then, you want to grab your rubber ducky and remember this is why you have your portfolio well diversified to manage market dips...
by lindapowell | Feb 14, 2017 | Articles, Kristin's Chronicles
When I was a kid, my grandmother’s house was my favorite place in the summer. Filled with cousins, aunts, uncles, dogs, and time to run around, we exhausted ourselves and mostly kept out of trouble (I’ll only say I wasn’t involved in the ding-dong doorbell...
by lindapowell | Nov 2, 2016 | Articles, Kristin's Chronicles
It goes without saying that this election year has been an experience. Now that the election is almost over, we can start to focus on other things. As I look back over the last several months, though, there is one question that came up more than others, “Should I make...
by lindapowell | Oct 13, 2016 | Articles, Kristin's Chronicles
I’d love to see the hit musical Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton is such an interesting character. He was born in the Caribbean out of wedlock, became an orphan, wasn’t known for getting along with others (see duel with Aaron Burr), and yet he had a huge influence on the...
by lindapowell | Jun 13, 2016 | Articles, Kristin's Chronicles
And Why Aren’t They Driving a Ferrari? I’ll give you a multiple choice list of answers for this one Janet Yellen, the Fed Chief Someone in a back office on Wall Street All of us It doesn’t matter, the economy follows a random walk Trick question, there’s...
by lindapowell | May 10, 2016 | Articles, Blog, Kristin's Chronicles
I had the privilege about 20 years ago to build a college cost calculator for a large mutual fund company. We added cool new features so someone could estimate how much it would cost for each of their children to attend mom’s college, or dad’s, or the school down the...
