Meritas Advisors http://meritasadvisors.com Comprehensive Wealth Management Wed, 15 May 2013 23:32:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Your Money http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/05/your-money-april/ http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/05/your-money-april/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 17:45:18 +0000 Greg Tull http://meritasadvisors.com/?p=1728 The negative news about the economy continues and yet the stock market has kept going up. This divergence reinforces one of the key lessons of active management, which is that the broader the financial instrument, the less predictable the movement … Continue reading →

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]]> http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/05/your-money-april/feed/ 0 Market Volumes and Lessons from M&A http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/05/market-volumes-and-lessons-from-ma/ http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/05/market-volumes-and-lessons-from-ma/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 17:30:03 +0000 Lenore Hawkins http://meritasadvisors.com/?p=1724 Equity markets are being propped up by impressively cheap money: central bank liquidity injections and the overtime-price of money, interest rates. Typically during times of rising equity prices, merger and acquisition activity ramps up. Most expected 2013 to be a … Continue reading →

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]]> http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/05/market-volumes-and-lessons-from-ma/feed/ 0 Interest Rates and National Debt http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/05/interest-rates-and-national-debt/ http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/05/interest-rates-and-national-debt/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 17:00:35 +0000 Lenore Hawkins http://meritasadvisors.com/?p=1714 The Federal Reserve has been under considerable pressure to provide details for just how it will control all the excess liquidity that it has created through quantitative easing. The Fed’s balance sheet, which can roughly be thought of as a … Continue reading →

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]]> http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/05/employment/feed/ 0 GDP & Corporate Growth http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/04/gdp-corporate-growth/ http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/04/gdp-corporate-growth/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:30:44 +0000 Lenore Hawkins http://meritasadvisors.com/?p=1690 None of the four major components of the business cycle, (real income, sales, production and employment) have managed to get back to their 2007 highs, even now as we enter the fifth year of the recovery. This is truly a … Continue reading →

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]]> http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/04/gdp-corporate-growth/feed/ 0 Corporate Earnings http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/04/corporate-earnings/ http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/04/corporate-earnings/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:06:37 +0000 Lenore Hawkins http://meritasadvisors.com/?p=1680 As we head into the first quarter’s earnings season, 78% of companies have issued negative earnings preannouncements, the highest percentage of companies issuing negative earnings guidance since FactSet began tracking the data in Q1 2006. The chart above shows in … Continue reading →

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]]> http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/04/corporate-earnings/feed/ 0 Your Money http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/04/your-money/ http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/04/your-money/#comments Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:50:20 +0000 Greg Tull http://meritasadvisors.com/?p=1595 The financial repression exemplified by the Federal Reserve’s zero interest rate policy (ZIRP), that was begun on Dec 16, 2008, has many side effects. One of these side effects is to drive down the interest income that savers and investors … Continue reading →

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]]> http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/04/your-money/feed/ 0 Federal Reserve http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/03/federal-reserve/ http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/03/federal-reserve/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:48:24 +0000 Lenore Hawkins http://meritasadvisors.com/?p=1588 It took the federal government around 200 years to accumulate a trillion dollars in debt. Within the following decade it tripled that number, then doubled it again in just twelve years, and doubled it again in another 8 years. Overall … Continue reading →

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]]> http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/03/federal-reserve/feed/ 0 Sequester Mania Ignores Other Warning Signs http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/02/sequester-mania/ http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/02/sequester-mania/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2013 04:12:23 +0000 Lenore Hawkins http://meritasadvisors.com/?p=1540 On February 26th Lenore Hawkins joined Neil Cavuto to discuss the apoplectic fits of politicians and the media all over the country concerning the sequester, which represents a rather small decrease in the increase of government spending.  Yes you read that … Continue reading →

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]]> http://meritasadvisors.com/2013/02/sequester-mania/feed/ 0 Lenore Hawkins and Neil Cavuto discuss the impending fiscal cliff http://meritasadvisors.com/2012/11/fiscal-cliff/ http://meritasadvisors.com/2012/11/fiscal-cliff/#comments Sat, 01 Dec 2012 04:00:09 +0000 Lenore Hawkins http://meritasadvisors.com/?p=1523 On November 30th, Lenore Hawkins joined Neil Cavuto to discuss the impending fiscal cliff and the increasing tensions between the White House and Congress.

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