Category: In The News

The U.S. Debt Ceiling and World Economy: It’s not as bad as it appears. – July 2011 Newsletter

“Have you guys seen food and gas prices lately? U.S. $ will soon be worthless if the Fed keeps printing money.”
Can you guess who said – or should I say – “tweeted” this? (Is that a word?) … Continue reading

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College Costs and Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship: the Good, the Bad and How to Prepare – May 2011 Newsletter

College costs: Watch your wallet.  College graduates saddled with debt.  HOPE won’t end, but it will change.  Recent headlines like these from newspapers and online news sources underscore the rapid increase in higher education costs.  Additionally, benefits have been reduced … Continue reading

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Spring Clean Your Financial Future – March 2011 Newsletter

Spring Clean Your Financial Future
We can all be honest about the 2011 New Year’s resolutions: We have pretty much broken all of them before the end of January and forgotten the rest by the beginning of March.  As April approaches, … Continue reading

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Is the Party Over Before It Really Got Started Again? – January 2011 Newsletter

Is The Party Over Before It Really Got Started Again?
As the chart at the bottom displays, 2010 offered an interesting mix of positive and negative news as investors around the world eagerly anticipated signs of economic recovery and financial stabilization.
While … Continue reading

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A Dying Banker’s Last Instructions- The New York Times

Ther are no one-handed push-ups or headstands on the yoga mat for Gordon Murray anymore…..decided to cease all treatment… Continue reading

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Breaking Economic News… Or Is It? – October 2010 Newsletter

Friend and fellow financial consultant David Hulstrom recently forwarded a quote from Time magazine:  
“The U.S. economy remains almost comatose … The current slump already ranks as the longest period of sustained weakness since the Great Depression. That was the last time the … Continue reading

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To Freeze or Not to Freeze? Redwood Tackles the Question of Putting your Credit on Ice – September 2010 Newsletter

Every day it seems we learn about a new way in which hackers or some other criminal element attempt to steal our identities, either by a Trojan horse, a phishing e-mail, or sometimes they even go the old fashioned route by breaking … Continue reading

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Bonds Without Interest -1st Quarter 2010 Newsletter January-March

 
Bonds without Interest?
By Shawn Meade, CFP®, CPA, MS
I was reading Kiplinger’s recently and came across the article “Ring Out the E-Bonds, Ring in the I-Bonds” by Joan Goldwasser.  That got me to thinking.  I remember when I was growing up … Continue reading

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The Challenge Ahead of Us – Dec 2009 Newsletter

The Challenge Ahead of Us
By Lane Steinberger, CFP®, CFA
As I always say, investing is an easy thing to talk about and a very hard thing to do.
Here we are, the market has rallied 60% from its low and the economy … Continue reading

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Mayor Welcomes Redwood to Alpharetta – September 2009 Newsletter

Mayor Welcomes Redwood to Alpharetta
The clients and friends of Redwood Wealth Management joined Alpharetta Mayor Arthur Letchas in the official opening of the new Redwood office at an Open House June 25th.Clients enjoyed wine, beer, and appetizers as the advisors … Continue reading

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