Perspectives

With so many people impaneled at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, and with the introduction of apps on smartphones like Robinhood that permits people to trade their accounts anywhere, a new generation of day trading has come back to the stock market at full force.

After five weeks of quarantine, many people are wondering when, if ever, life will return to normal. The short investment answer is that it won’t.

The effect on the stock market has been pandemonium. There is an old adage on Wall Street that markets take an escalator going up, but the elevator going down. Program trading has exacerbated this.

The Federal Reserve recently issued an opinion that was interpreted by many as a signal for a rate cut at the next meeting. The current

World War II got off to a slow start. It officially began on September 1, 1939, with the invasion of Poland by German and Russian