I come from a long line of teachers on my mother’s side of the family. Mom teaches Kindergarten. Both of her sisters, my aunts, are teachers; one elementary and one high school literature. My grandmother was an elementary teacher and school principal. My grandfather was a beloved basketball coach, teacher, and school board member. The…
No-Fault Recession
Almost everyone is suffering financially from the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Nonessential businesses across the country are shuttered. More than 22 million Americans have filed for unemployment claims over the past four weeks. Hotel rooms are empty as municipalities reliant on their taxes see holes blown in their budgets. Cuts to city services, furloughs, and layoffs…
This Week in Women – Easter is Cancelled
Another week under the stay-at-home mandate has passed. But this weekend is a tough one because we will not celebrate Easter in any traditional sense. We have the outfits for the children and their beautiful Easter baskets. But we won’t have that long lunch with family or attend the service at church. And I love…
A One-Percenter Blinded by Covid-19
The following is a guest post from a woman in wealth management whom I greatly admire, Charlotte Beyer. I met Charlotte at the CFA Wealth Management Conference in Los Angeles several years ago when I moderated her speaking engagement. Charlotte has dedicated her career to understanding the needs of the 1%. She founded the Institute…
This Week in Women – Stay at Home Edition
As we complete another week under a state mandated stay-at-home order, I am both hopeful and uneasy about how long this way of life might last. I am hopeful because my family has settled in to our new routine. A sense of normalcy has returned as I attend board meetings on Zoom and schedule virtual…
This Time is Different
If you were born 200 years ago, there is a good chance you would have succumbed to an infectious disease by now. When European explorers landed in the Americas, their foreign diseases wiped out entire civilizations. A pharmacy in the French Quarter of New Orleans placed yellow liquid in the bottles in the window to…
This Week in Women – Quarantine Edition
It is more difficult each day to find non Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic news. I know there will be countless stories of heroic women when the storm has passed. In the meantime, it feels like watching a storm in slow motion. We know the damage was done before our closures and social distancing measures were put…
Antarctic Night
In August 1914, famed explorer Ernest Shackleton set sail for a record breaking attempt to travel across the continent of Antarctica. But his ship and crew were soon stranded in the polar sea, wedged between ice floes that would not part. As the days passed, the sun slowly set in the horizon. During the Antarctic…
This Week in Women – Social Distancing for COVID-19
Days feel like weeks. Weeks seem to last a month. Watching the country and many parts of our economy shutdown over the past week has been surreal. Last Thursday’s historic 10% market drop would soon be overshadowed by Monday’s 13% decline. Our economy was not designed with this type of immediate shutdown in mind. It…
Bird in the Hand
If you have cash sitting on the sidelines, this is the moment you were waiting for. You watched it go up, and now you’ve watched it come down. If not now, when? Huge caveat, this is not a bottom of the market call. There are no models to quantify what happens when more than half…
