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Was reading news this morning and then looking into US vs global oil prices. I have to admit - I’ve always known Brent oil was a more global market and West Texas Intermediate is “US oil.” Brent crude is actually oil from the North Sea - a much cleaner oil that takes less refining, and widely used in Europe. Despite all the news in the Middle East - have you ever seen Dubai crude mentioned in the media? You’ll be “happy” to know that our oil and gas prices are up significantly less than middle eastern oil prices. 🤷‍♂️

(Data/graph created using Claude AI - I believe we pulled prices from oilprices.com)

Let me start by saying that my current RIA (Registered Investment Advisor) Commonwealth Financial Network (who is responsible for my regulatory compliance, etc.) does not currently approve the recommendation of any Bitcoin related...

Bitcoin as an

Commonwealth to be acquired by LPL.

Commonwealth to be acquired by LPL

Congratulations to Sheila on her new baby granddaughter Sylvie Marie Stenberg born on Friday (with big sis Lyla)

Last week was uncomfortable, but bear in mind that when negative thinking gets extreme, even "less bad" news can be good news. And it's nice seeing bonds and alternatives adding value to portfolios again.

Putting the Market Sell-Off into Perspective Commonwealth's Chris Fasciano breaks down the recent market sell-off, new tariffs, rising investor fears, and what it all means for the path ahead.

I’m a bit late getting this out but for any of you with a non-SS covered pension (a pension from a government job that was exempt from paying SS taxes), you may have heard that WEP and GPO were recently repealed, retroactive to...

Social Security Fairness Act - MAJOR changes for many teachers and others with no-SS covered pension

One of the local charities we support is the Clovis North Robotics Club - Stable Circuits. I have no connections to them other than my kids went to school there and a friend’s daughter is on the team. I attended a demo night and was very impressed by all the super smart kids putting in a lot of hours. I participated in a lot of math & science clubs growing up and know how little attention and money they get compared to sports and couldn’t resist supporting them!! (They aren’t very active on Facebook, their instagram https://www.instagram.com/frc6305?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== or website https://www.stablecircuits6305.com is a better source to read about them.)

One of the local charities we support is the Clovis North Robotics club. I don’t have any connections to them other than my children went to school there and a friend’s daughter is on their team. I went to a demo night and met all the super smart kids putting in lots of hours and was very impressed. I participated in lots of math and science clubs growing up and know how little attention and money they get compared to sports and couldn’t resist supporting them!!