Tag: media bias
Jul 14, 2025
Last week’s column focused on the challenge for financial advisors, in our current divided and chaotic political landscape, to provide accurate economic information even when it may not align with a client’s political biases. Now, let’s look at that same dilemma from...
Jul 7, 2025
“How will this administration’s trade policies affect my retirement savings?” “What does it mean for our plans to travel internationally if the value of the dollar declines?” “Is it wise to borrow right now to expand my business?” Clients who ask questions like these...
May 19, 2025
When headlines coming out of Washington sound like something for legal scholars or political commentators, it’s easy to assume they have nothing to do with your investments, your retirement account, or your household budget. Sometimes, that assumption is wrong. On May...
Apr 17, 2023
I recently came across a new survey of personal financial and economic views of Americans done in March of 2023 by NORC at the University of Chicago, funded by The Wall Street Journal. Here are some of the findings I thought were particularly notable. Most of us, a...
Oct 24, 2022
I recently asked an investor who had a history of making poor financial decisions to send me a list of his sources for news that impacted his financial decisions. They were all extreme in their political bent, with very low to mixed probability of being factual. There...
