Welcome to the halfway point of 2019! If you’re anything like me you might be wondering how the last six months seemed to fly by so quickly. It seems like only last week when we were watching New Year’s fireworks...

Those of us in Minnesota heard much about the “Snowiest February Ever!” (for those of you not in Minnesota, please take our word that it snowed a lot), but here’s a headline that you might have missed: The first...

After examining Amazon’s rocky past and recent meteoric rise, let’s take a look at a very different case study; the story of GE. For years, General Electric was the gold standard of blue chip stocks; strong...

I’d like to tell you about a hot new investment that has made some people very rich in recent years. In the past nine years, it has lost at least 25% of its value of total of seven separate times, then rocketed...

4th Quarter and Full Year 2018 Market Summary

A long time ago, someone, somewhere bestowed upon stock investors that a Bear Market shall be defined as a 20% decline from the most recent market peak. Oh, and by the...

We love data at PrairieView. That may not come as a surprise to many of you.

We have many reasons for our love of data. Data helps bring certainty to an uncertain world. Data can quantify an expected outcome when...

3rd Quarter 2018 Market Summary

The Third Quarter of 2018 saw US Stocks reach new highs on multiple occasions with the S&P 500 returning 7.7% for the quarter and 18% over the last year. For those of you keeping...

What’s on Your Mind?

Can you remember a time in your school years when a teacher or professor suggested that if you have a question about a topic, you should ask because surely others have the same question? Based...

As the first decade of the 21st century came to a close, financial commentators across the news media were quick to coin what they felt was an apt description of the last 10 years for equity investors: The Lost...

First, the good news: $1,000 invested in the S&P 500 on the first trading day of 1945 would now be worth over $1,000,000. The bad news? As an investor, you would have had to endure thirteen bear markets, or about...

“A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.” – Yogi Berra

The famously quotable Yankee, whether intended or not at the time, aptly described the impact of inflation on the value of our money. In recent times when...