LI Frog Blog

 Like so many, I’ve become interested in this week’s stock market news. The frenzy is the outcome of the sudden high volume of trading in companies largely thought to be, to put it nicely, bargain stocks. But it is also a reflection of the varied perspectives on what it might mean for the future of trading. The Wall Street Journal reports that GameStop rose 68% this past Friday. Something hedge funds did not anticipate. I actually purchased some GameStop stock - I also already sold it. This had absolutely nothing to do with taking with some kind of anti-Wall Street stand. I like to think of myself as a casual swing-trader of sorts and have had an on-again/off-again relationship with my E*TRADE account for almost 20 years. There are also some traders that saw RobinHood as revolutionary in, for example, eliminating commissions on trades.  But make no mistake, this is not Howard Pyle’s “Robin Hood.” This is not the legendary medieval leader of a merry band of outlaw disrupters, m...

I can’t tell you exactly what James Joyce meant by that quote but it leapt off the page at me when I read it this afternoon in  Dubliners . As promised Joyce is at times hard to digest but I felt that his efforts at telling these stories of people in Dublin, Ireland was motivating. So, I thought I would tell some of my own from time to time on this platform So I recently (today) decided I might take up blogging and then I remembered that I already had a blog that has been just sitting here dormant where my wife and I left it many years ago. Of course, a good deal of life has happened since. We now have three children and do far less international travel. One thing directly impacting the other. We are both still educators and I have now been a school administrator for just shy of a decade. We have run marathons. We have completed advanced degrees. Sadly, we have lost loved ones along the way. One thing is for sure, however. We have grown through these experiences. Over the years I h...