by Chris Conway - Prato Capital | Sep 20, 2021 | Blog
Perspective Today’s financial headlines only tell part of the story. The headlines are intended to keep viewers watching and raise emotions about the equity markets. The part of the story the media is not covering is that after a decline of over 2% today, the S&P...
by Chris Conway - Prato Capital | Sep 20, 2021 | Blog
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have received lots of airtime from the media this year. Why? What is a Non-Fungible Token or NFT? Non-fungible is an economic term that describes things that have unique properties and are not interchangeable with other items. When the term...
by Chris Conway - Prato Capital | Aug 16, 2021 | Blog
Summer Vacation For summer vacation this year I am travelling with my wife, Sharon and our dog, a Norwich Terrier named Elhe, in our RV to Colorado and New Mexico. It has been a great trip so far with beautiful scenery and wildlife sightings of bear, antelope, deer,...
by Chris Conway - Prato Capital | Jul 19, 2021 | Blog
This week, the Federal Government released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for June 2021 and reported a 5.4% increase in prices from June 2020. This was the largest increase since August 2008. The most pressing concern is that the latest report follows a 5.0%...
by Chris Conway - Prato Capital | Jun 18, 2021 | Blog
Last week, the Federal Government released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for May 2021. The headline number of a 5.0% increase in prices from one year ago has the become the subject of many news headlines. Inflation is always a concern for consumers and...
by Chris Conway - Prato Capital | May 17, 2021 | Blog
May 17, 2021 Noise in the media While driving, I pass the time listening to the radio and the business news. Over the past few weeks, a trend in how the ‘news’ is broadcast became very noticeable to me. Each of the past 4 weeks has had a different topic that...
