“What is hip? Tell me, tell me if you think you know What is hip? If you was really hip The passing years would show” The 1973 song from Tower of Power was about looking and being in fashion. Today, the fashion is following and listening to individual voices that say they speak for a generation. This really is nothing new in this country. ...

The waiting is the hardest part Every day you see one more card You take it on faith You take it to the heart The waiting is the hardest part I just had to use that Tom Petty song today. Today, this week and this month will be about waiting. Last week the Fed hinted at potentially dropping interest rates to help stimulate the economy. The Pre...

“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.” From the great communicator, Ronald Reagan. It was information that flowed to the people behind the Iron Curtain that eventually forced communism out and brought in variations of democracy throughout Easte...

Again, it’s all part of the waiting game. With the summer here, almost, we start getting into the waiting game. The Fed will be in session today and tomorrow and markets will be breathlessly waiting for some guidance as far as monetary policy is concerned. We are in that dead zone of few earnings reports and even fewer corporate announcements....

I'm gonna raise a fuss, I'm gonna raise a holler About a-workin' all summer just to try to earn a dollar Every time I call my baby, try to get a date My boss says, "no dice son, you gotta work late" It’s the Monday after Memorial Day and it’s summertime. Eddie Cochran may have written it but The Who made it a summertime anthem. Typica...