Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.– Dolly Parton THOUGHTS FROM DOUG What does it tell us about our…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View Passion is the enemy of analysis.– Robert Kaplan THOUGHTS FROM DOUG How much time each day are you NOT staring at an electronic screen?   The…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.– Martin Luther King, Jr. THOUGHTS FROM DOUG…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View …the people with the greatest reputations [for knowledge] were almost entirely deficient, while others who were supposed to be their inferiors were much better…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View There are decades where nothing happens,and there are weeks where decades happen.– Vladimir Lenin THOUGHTS FROM DOUG Maybe the Fed will stop raising rates when…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View We learn from failure, not from success.– Irish writer, Abraham “Bram” Stoker THOUGHTS FROM DOUG The Fed backstops SVB’s $175B in depositsThe Swiss central bank…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View It is possible today we found our Enron.– Investor Michael Burry on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank THOUGHTS FROM DOUG With the close of Silicon Valley…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.– Warren Buffett THOUGHTS FROM DOUG The…

Welcome to This Week’s Leyendecker View I have come to think that one of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine…