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12/18/2024

🎉 Congratulations to Mai Phan! 🎉

Mai has received her Master’s in Accounting from Metropolitan State University of Denver! 🎓

This is an incredible achievement and we are proud to have Mai as a part of our tax team.

04/25/2024

Read Karl's latest piece on Social Security:

It should come as no shock to anyone that it is only a matter of when the current way Social Security benefits will need to be adjusted, not if. When it comes to how and when it should happen is the proverbial elephant in the room. It’s safe to say that the “when” has been [...]

03/07/2024

Check out Karl's latest Market Commentary on election years and market performance: https://www.mountaincapital.us/market-performance-during-election-years-after/

01/24/2024

Karl opines on the housing market in his latest commentary:

As 2024 begins to unfold, housing market trends are one of the most talked about aspects of the year ahead. There are a number of factors at play when it comes to trying to understand how we got here and what we can expect in 2024. It’s obvious the surge in home values began as [...]

12/28/2023

Great piece by Karl on the 2024 market outlook:

There are as many varied and opinionated 2024 outlooks as there are people and investment firms that publish them. If you just keep looking, you will eventually discover one that fits with what you are looking for. Taking a step back, it’s helpful to focus on key aspects of the financial markets i...

11/14/2023

Read Karl's latest commentary on interest rates:

Where to start? Here’s a quick summary of interest rates over the past two plus years. Leading up to the COVID pandemic, the Federal Reserve had embarked on a slow process of lowering the Fed Funds target rate from between 2% – 3% to 1% – 2%. When the pandemic went into full swing, they [...]

06/23/2023

Read Karl's latest piece on Travel Demand:

For anyone that has traveled by air in the past 12-18 months, you have experienced firsthand just how fast demand for air travel has grown. Even with significant increases in air fares and a looming recession, more and more consumers continue to get back into travel mode. How long this rising demand...

06/20/2023

What's the latest on Student Loans? Read Karl's latest piece here:

Republican Led Resolution to End Loan Forgiveness Passed A resolution to cancel The Biden Administration’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan passed both the House and Senate this week. President Biden has promised to veto it which will stand since it would take a super majority to override the veto an...

05/26/2023

Read Karl's latest piece on the Debt Ceiling Issue:

To start off, while nothing in life is certain, it is nearly impossible to imagine that the United States will default on its debt. History Has a Way of Repeating Itself What is happening now is a replay of what has happened several times in our history, most recently in 2011 and 2013. In 2011, [......

04/10/2023

Social Security & Medicare – Running out of Money? Read Karl's latest Market Commentary here:

Trying to understand how Social Security (SS) and Medicare (MC) are funded and how that funding may run out is not easy to explain nor is it very interesting. I am going to give it a try because the recently heightened awareness of a potential for a government debt default leading to risks that thes...

03/06/2023

Where Did All The Workers Go? Read Karl's latest Market Commentary:

It’s not news to anyone that there is a labor shortage in a variety of service, transportation, manufacturing, healthcare services, and hospitality sectors, among others. The common refrain as the pandemic wound down and life started to get back to normal was that the missing workers would return....

02/23/2023

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