A couple of housekeeping items before we move on to today's note. Mark will be speaking at the MoneyShow in Orlando, Florida on Saturday. Hope to see all of you there. When you logged onto the site today, you may receive a warning that the site was not secure. This occurred because our SSL certificate expired. We have purchased another one and it should be in working order shortly.
We want to remind our readers that in times like these, it pays to sit back and take a breath. Do not make any rash decisions. Prices of equities have fallen hard, rebounded sharply and fallen once again. This kind of trading activity seems out of the ordinary, and on a short-term basis, it is. For the past few years, volatility has been suppressed due to quantitative easing the so-called "Fed Put." Those days seem to be over and we think markets will behave as they normally have for millennia.
