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Your Student Loans are Paused, Now What Do You Do?
2021.02.16
Federal student loan borrowers were big winners in the $2 trillion COVID stimulus bill: all federal student loan payments were paused until the end of...
The GameStop Explosion is More Virtual than Reality
2021.02.01
I have been a lifelong gamer, so when GameStop started showing up on my newsfeed – I didn’t think too much of it at first.  Longtime readers of our content...
Should You Use the 4% Rule for Your Retirement Income?
2021.01.27
Planning for retirement seems straight forward. You invest a certain amount of money into a particular retirement portfolio for a number of years and watch...
Energetic Leadership
2021.01.05
Energetic Leadership = Engaged Employees Are we having fun yet? It’s a safe bet that if your employees answer “No” to the above question more than...
BREXIT Final Stages
2020.12.16
It has been years since the British exit from the European Union (the Brexit) was put in motion by a tight referendum vote.  It has been months-and-months...
The End of Easy Employment Gains
2020.12.08
The November employment report showed that the economy gained 245,000 jobs, far behind expectations.  For instance, a MarketWatch economist poll had an...
Black Friday Amid COVID-19
2020.11.30
The retail environment’s tone is set by 3 days in late November:  Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday.  Over the past month, Wall Street...
News of Additional Vaccine Options
2020.11.24
For months, our economic potential has been hampered by the chilling impact of the coronavirus.  The hoped-for solutions – widespread testing, effective...
Employee Engagement in the COVID World
2020.11.19
As each year-end performance review cycle begins, executive teams across industries review their key performance indicators (KPIs) to determine the success...
A Light at the End of the Tunnel
2020.11.09
The markets are climbing today, a very strong pace.  You might think it has something to do with the election finally being called last weekend, but that...
Voting Season
2020.11.03
We started Confero – now in its eighth year – in the shadow of the 2012 election season.  While there were certainly differences between candidates Mitt...
Why is This a Suprise?
2020.10.26
We know COVID cases are rising – hitting all-time highs in the US this past weekend.  We know that cases could possibly continue to rise through the winter. ...
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