This week on Take 5, Ryan Detrick, Chief Market Strategist at Carson Group, and Sonu Varghese, VP, Global Macro Strategist at Carson Group, discuss the state of the U.S. consumer. Talking points include: Retail sales and restaurant activity remain robust, supported by strong balance sheets …
The good news is that American households have a total net worth of $85.2 trillion. The bad news is that most families are still behind where they were financially in 2007. In a recent survey, over half of Americans said they had less than $1,000 in their checking and savings accounts combi …
If anything has changed in the financial picture — e.g., longer or shorter working hours, inheritances received or forfeited — “we need to come in, … rerun your numbers, making sure you’re appropriately invested for what it is you’re trying to accomplish
By Steve Jordon / World-Herald staff writer Ron Carson grew up on a farm, and his father taught him and his sister how to work hard — namely, all the time. He followed that workaholic path when he started his advice business, but his personal life suffered.
A financial advisor I know told me how he handles the growing complexity of our industry on a recent weekend at my hunting lodge: He spends one day a week on compliance and one day a week on research.
In their new book, The Sustainable Edge: 15 Minutes a Week to a Richer Entrepreneurial Life, released this week, top advisors Ron Carson and Scott Ford share their disciplines and career successes to help business owners achieve a better work-life balance. But the book also takes shots at t …
Growing up on a farm in Nebraska, Ron Carson witnessed financial hardship firsthand. During the farm crisis of the 1970’s, crop prices were at rock bottom, many farmers had debts they couldn’t repay and family farms were going out of business, replaced by larger, more industrialized operations.
