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What if it is Different This Time? – Michael Rogan

March 14th, 2025|Comments Off on What if it is Different This Time? – Michael Rogan

Spoiler alert: It isn't. Sure, “The Market” is down. It has fallen way back to levels we haven’t seen in…6 months. Last summer, when “the market” first hit these levels, it was at an all-time high. These levels were wonderful. [...]

The “Gift of Stay” – Michael Rogan

February 4th, 2025|Comments Off on The “Gift of Stay” – Michael Rogan

Rogan & Associates is truly blessed with great clients who compliment us by referring their friends and family. I’m often asked to explain what it is we do that sets us apart from other financial services firms. It occurred to [...]

Jimmy Carter, RIP – Wesbury’s Outlook

December 30th, 2024|Comments Off on Jimmy Carter, RIP – Wesbury’s Outlook

Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the United States passed away this weekend, at age 100, the first former president to ever reach that milestone. The Election of 1976, when Carter won, seems like it happened in a different country. [...]

Finally, Election Eve – Wesbury’s Outlook

November 4th, 2024|Comments Off on Finally, Election Eve – Wesbury’s Outlook

It’s almost over! Unfortunately, those texts might not stop right away. Unless this election is an unexpected blowout, some key states won’t have full counts of all their ballots for several days. That said, enough results from some hotly contested [...]

Here’s what to do during these uncertain times….

August 25th, 2022|Comments Off on Here’s what to do during these uncertain times….

Now that we have your attention, let’s take a look at uncertain times and certain times. In our decades of delivering financial guidance, we can’t recall any certain times, which could make you think it’s even more important to know [...]

Bears, Recessions, and Monkey Pox. Oh My!

June 6th, 2022|Comments Off on Bears, Recessions, and Monkey Pox. Oh My!

Given recent events, we sense a need to send you this booster shot of “Vitamin C(alm)”. After numerous conversations with clients during annual review meetings, we thought this would be a good time to discuss the ultimate impact of the [...]

Recession Unlikely in 2022 – Wesbury’s Outlook

May 16th, 2022|Comments Off on Recession Unlikely in 2022 – Wesbury’s Outlook

The consensus among economists puts the odds of a recession starting sometime in the next year at 30%, according to Bloomberg's most recent survey. No wonder the S&P 500 is deep in correction territory and flirting with an official bear [...]

Focus on the Money, Not Rates – Wesbury’s Outlook

April 26th, 2022|Comments Off on Focus on the Money, Not Rates – Wesbury’s Outlook

No one can say that the Federal Reserve can't do the impossible. At long last observers from across the political spectrum agree on one thing – that Jerome Powell and the Fed are well behind the inflation curve and have [...]

We Are All Keynesians Now – Wesbury’s Outlook

April 5th, 2022|Comments Off on We Are All Keynesians Now – Wesbury’s Outlook

ntellectuals and politicians often try to verbally summarize or justify conventional thinking in pithy ways. Milton Friedman (in 1965) and Richard Nixon (in 1971) both said different versions of the phrase "we are all Keynesians now." John Maynard Keynes, one [...]