News, insights and thought leadership from the City Different team.
There’s a line from the movie The Last Boy Scout that’s always stuck with me: "Water's wet, the sky is blue..." (gunna add my own spin on it here) ... and market risks, Jimmy, they’re out there and...
Connor and I both majored in economics. We spent four years steeped in macro theory, poring over models of trade, labor, and monetary policy. Since then, we’ve found… let’s say, limited use for most...
I’ve worked in this industry for 25 years at this point. I’ve seen trends come and go, asset classes boom and bust, and countless firms try to differentiate themselves on everything from process to...
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you...” Rudyard Kipling Yesterday, I noticed Warren Buffet was in the press quoting this Kipling piece, one of my...
If you’ve ever seen the movie A Beautiful Mind (filmed on campus while I finished my degree in economics!), you’ll remember the pickup scene in the bar. John Nash (played by Russel Crowe) stumbles...
Around age 40, my annual checkup started including additional tests. These tests are meant to keep me healthy, but they also have the ancillary effect of stressing me out while I await the results....
So you wanna sell your business. As you can probably imagine, there’s a lot of steps between that thought and executing on it. To that end, we previously published a post outlining the 6 steps to...
When we’re chatting with clients, we often get the same flavor of questions about bonds (we would bet if you have exposure to the bond market, you’ve wondered some of these as well…). So we wanted to...
WEEK ENDING 2/21/2025 Tariffs continue to dominate headlines. Fed remains in wait-and-see mode. Sentiments and housing data skew negative.
WEEK ENDING 2/14/2025 Fixed income seems immune to headlines. “Patience is a virtue; possess it if you can.” Inflation seems untamed. The purges continue.
Vanguard just dropped the hammer on ETF fees again, slashing its average expense ratio to a jaw-dropping 0.07%. That’s a big deal in an industry segment where “fees are one of the most important...
WEEK ENDING 2/07/2025 Eagles soar past Chiefs to win Super Bowl. Treasury Secretary Bessent wants to bring 10-year bond yield down. Mixed employment data supports Fed’s wait-and-see.
WEEK ENDING 1/31/2025 Two horrific plane crashes claimed 73 lives. Investigations into causes are underway. DeepSeek is not an AI hallucination… we think. Purges of FBI, Department of Justice, and...
This week, a surprising announcement from China’s Deep Seek sparked a lot of market chatter (and, ya know, vaporized nearly $600B in market value from Nvidia). Deep Seek claims it developed an...
If you’ve ever bought or sold a business (or are just a follower of publicly announced mergers and acquisitions), you’ve likely heard the term “rollover equity." Rollover equity is basically any...
WEEK ENDING 1/24/2025 The fear and the opportunity of high interest rates. Fed meets Wednesday for the first time this year. Here come the tariffs.
WEEK ENDING 1/17/2025 CPI report dilutes jobs report, for now A new administration began Monday Prepare for volatility
9/10 is an exceptional mark in almost all applications. If a restaurant has a 9/10 on Yelp or Foursquare (yes, Foursquare is still an excellent restaurant rating app), it means the restaurant is...
WEEK ENDING 1/10/2025 Strong jobs numbers dampen view of Fed Rate cuts. Fiscal and tariff uncertainty cause market sell-off. Damage and loss of life in LA County climb. Register for our fixed-income...
Every few years, it seems like the municipal bond market can’t resist a good scare story. This time, it’s the potential for Congress to alter the tax-exempt status of muni bonds — an idea making the...
Explaining Wednesday’s complete market route. All markets, be they equity or fixed income, took a proverbial kick in the shorts on Wednesday. The S&P 500 index finished the day 178.45 points lower...
