Laura Carley was selected to join the Young Professional Steering Committee of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, which strives to create mentoring and networking opportunities for young professionals who live and/ or work in Overland Park. The committee is primarily responsible for developing and launching future events that will benefit their expanding base…
Rich Boyer, Mindy Corporon and Laura Carley attended FPA Greater Kansas City Chapter luncheon in Overland Park featuring Mr. Greg Valliere, Chief Political Strategist for the Washington Research Group. Mr. Valliere delivered an entertaining speech and discussed a broad range of issues including tax and regulatory changes, pending energy legislation and the threat of larger…
Every once in a while, the thought occurs to me that maybe I should write these Investment Commentaries quarterly instead of monthly. It would be refreshing to only have to publish such gloomy and discouraging comments every three months. Nevertheless, brace yourselves. If you thought it couldn’t get any worse, you were mistaken. In our…
Happy New Year!! Most of you are probably glad to put 2008 behind you….and for good reasons. From a financial standpoint, 2008 was clearly the most volatile, tumultuous, uncertain and painful calendar year in my adult life (I have been able to vote for 36 years). Surely 2009 cannot be any worse, can it? Surely…
As we expected, Barack Obama was elected President of the United States by an overwhelming majority. Obama garnered 365 electoral votes and 53% of the popular vote. In all my adult years of sitting up watching election returns, I don’t ever recall the winner being announced as early as 10pm (CST). In addition, the Democrats…
