The popular headline of the week/month is inflation. We haven't seen inflation (or defaltion) in the news this much since it was Tom Brady driving the headlines. Rene gives us a history lesson on inflation and outlines what is drivng the current spike and what we're thinking about/paying attention to looking forward. [...]

Should we fear a replay of the 1970’s High-Inflation era? Today’s jobs report points to an unemployment rate of 3.7% - the lowest since 1969, the year when the worst outbreak of inflation began to be felt.  From 1969 to 1982 inflation spiked to 7.3% annually and wrecked stock and bond returns – which were negative [...]