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Improvements in Unemployment Are Slow To Come

The most eagerly anticipated report of the week was Friday’s labor report.  Nonfarm payrolls fell by 54k in August, well ahead of the 105k drop economists were predicting.  Further allaying…

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Mid-terms and Uncertainty

Barry Glassman joins Congressman Paul Ryan and Greg Valliere, Chief Political Strategist as they debate the changes that could happen in the upcoming election, the expiration of the Bush tax…

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Chinese Growth Story – Not a New Tale

The global media is enamored with the Chinese growth story, but in reality this should not be an enormous surprise. For much of the past 2000 years, India and China…

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Global Equities Rise as Bond Yields Sink

Over the past several months, bond and equity markets have been on starkly divergent paths.  Investors are growing increasingly concerned that perhaps the bond market knows something that the stock…

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Now Is Not The Time For Higher Taxes

An interesting development has come to the forefront in the past several weeks.  Democrats who were previously in favor of allowing the Bush-era tax cuts to expire at the end…

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GWS Collaborative Planning Process Featured in Wall Street Journal

Barry Glassman has emphasized and practiced collaborative financial planning between his clients’ accountants, attorneys and other advisors long before this became the industry’s latest buzzword. Click Here to read more about…

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Baby Boomers Only Group With Employment Growth

While many are focused on the unemployment numbers, currently at 9.5%, more emblematic of the problem is the low employment to population ratio, which stands at roughly 58%, levels last…

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World Debt: Is The Sky The Limit?

We have been telling clients that the increase in overall debt in the US and countries around the world will continue to have a dragging affect on domestic and global economic…

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GWS Sponsors the 2011 American Odyssey Relay

Glassman Wealth Services is proud to be a sponsor of the 2011 American Odyssey Relay, a twenty-four hour, a two hundred mile relay race from Gettysburg to Washington, DC. Celebrating…

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Stocks Move Ahead, But Housing Stalls

The resurgence in risk appetite continued apace this past week, allowing the S&P 500 index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average to return to positive territory on the year.  By…

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