Brahms’ Lullaby Economy

March Madness has come and gone, leaving in its wake a stock market that can’t seem to find investors willing to sell. The S&P 500 increased 3.75% in March and 10.6% for the first quarter of the year. Attempts to sell stocks and drive the stock market down have been miserable failures for the past…

Be Prepared: It’s Tax Time

It’s tax time. Imagine that you are in your tax professional’s shoes and your entire client base delivers you thousands of unorganized documents in folders and boxes with one common request ... make me pay as little in taxes as possible. We at Boyer & Corporon Wealth Management are not tax professionals, nor do we…

Boyer & Corporon and Operation Breakthrough

As members of the auxiliary board, Cindy Wysong, Laura Carley and Mindy Corporon recently visited Operation Breakthrough, helping around 60 children (ages 3 to 5) create bird feeders. With a mission to help children living in poverty develop to their fullest potential by providing a safe, loving and educational environment, Operation Breakthrough is the largest…

Ten Years After

Globally, stock markets are on a tear and the U.S. stock markets are no exception. In the first two months of 2013, the S&P 500 is up over 6% and, as I’m writing this in March, it is hitting new highs. Last December I wrote, “We don’t feel stocks are horribly expensive and see some…

AAA, Apple and Complacency

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it is suing Standard & Poor's (S&P) over actions related to the sub-prime mortgage disaster. If you recall, investors all over the world lost billions of dollars by investing in mortgage-backed securities (MBS) to which S&P (and other ratings agencies) gave their top rating of AAA...right before those MBS's…