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Weekly Market Commentary 10-3-11 Tim Phillips, CEO – Phillips & Company     Last month, European physicists announced that they may have put a serious dent in Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity when they suggested it might be possible for something to travel… More >>

Weekly Market Commentary 9-26-11 Tim Phillips, CEO – Phillips and Company   Investor and consumer sentiment are near all-time lows and the instinctive thing to do is to follow the crowd and run for the exit.   Behaviorally speaking I call this, “risk as emotion… More >>

The State of Consumption and Policy Debates Weekly Market Commentary 9-20-11 Tim Phillips, CEO – Phillips & Company Focusing on one side of the balance sheet for consumers and corporations from a big picture standpoint you have: debt (liabilities) and net worth… More >>

I'm from the Government and I'm here to help. Tim Phillips, CEO – Phillips & Company   We heard that message loud and clear last week. Bernanke gave a speech to reiterate the FED still has plenty of tools at their disposal and Obama gave a speech to a joint session of… More >>

Risk vs. Return in Low Growth Economy Tim Phillips, CEO – Phillips & Company There is plenty of economic data to look at every week, but between Ben Bernanke’s speech in Jackson Hole and the September FOMC meeting there are three major economic data points:… More >>

Uncle Ben is Not Afraid Why Should We Be? Tim Phillips, CEO – Phillips & Company Last week everyone was focused on Ben Bernanke’s speech in Jackson Hole, where last year he outlined QE2. As we expected earlier this summer, he didn’t… More >>

Cold Hard Facts Tim Phillips, CEO – Phillips & Company Last month I mentioned we might “face some pretty gut wrenching days ahead with tremendous market volatility.” That might have been an understatement with everything that has happened. Dysfunction… More >>

"After a wild week on Wall Street the world is different" Tim Phillips, CEO – Phillips & Company This was the cover of Time Magazine just after the crash of 1987. I remember being very new in the business and thinking, "Had the world fallen apart?" At the time, I also… More >>

More Questions Than Answers Tim Phillips, CEO – Phillips & Company As I discussed in our blog post last week about Deficits, Defaults, and Downgrades, we believed a downgrade was inevitable, but thought it would come to fruition much further down the road. At this… More >>

There is Only One Way Tim Phillips, CEO – Phillips & Company   As we expected, it looks like the political class will get something done. As anticipated, The Debt Limit Deal also looks like it's heavily back loaded (much ado about nothing). In fact, all the real cuts… More >>