Family How it Started – How it’s Going Posted on October 19, 2020 By Matt Thank you for supporting our Northeast Ohio Walk for PKD! The picture accompanying this post shows William’s setup in the NICU shortly after he was born. On the right is today’s typical set up: bus stop, kid brother tagging along, and you can practically hear him sighing as Mom takes… Read more
Family Walk for PKD Posted on October 12, 2020 By Matt It’s Fall in Cleveland. By now we’ve usually got two sports teams to be disappointed in and we turn our eyes to college football. This year, however, the Browns are the bright spot while the Indians and Buckeyes are testing our patience. The other fixture for Clevelanders in fall is… Read more
This is Who You Are Posted on April 6, 2020 By Matt Regarding the stock market, “If you don’t know who you are, this is an expensive place to find out.” wrote Adam Smith. Everyone says they are investing for the long term. The joke is that “long-term” means only until the next bear market for a lot of people. Were you… Read more
News Super Tuesday and Re-Branding the Coronavirus Posted on March 4, 2020 By Matt Super Tuesday Joe Biden took control of the Democratic Primaries last night on Super Tuesday. Bernie Sanders was expected to win California which was supposed to maintain his lead even if Biden managed to close the gap somehow. It looks like Bernie’s momentum ran out instead. Joe Biden has taken… Read more
Investing Coronavirus Update Posted on February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 By Matt Here’s how I see it. The recovery since 4Q2018 was so smooth that the markets have been looking for a reason to sell off for a while. Acceleration dropped after 4Q2018 fell off of the 1 year numbers. The markets hiccuped after news of the coronavirus got really serious at… Read more
Investing Coronavirus Fears Posted on February 24, 2020 By Matt Stocks are off by about 3% this morning (as of noon on 2/24/2020) on fears that cases of coronavirus are accelerating outside of China. Should you worry? For the “general American public“, the answer is no. Does that mean that only an idiot would be concerned by this? No. Identifying… Read more
The Blog is Back! Posted on February 21, 2020 By Matt MatthewGarrott.com started as an experiment. I really just wanted to know how a person went about setting up a website. Turns out, buying a domain is pretty cheap, so why not buy my own name? From there, I figured I’d at least put up some text or something to figure… Read more
Investing iPhones, IPOs, and Interest Rates – The I’s Have It Posted on September 12, 2019 By Matt iPhones, IPOs, Interest Rates Lots of random news today, none of which warrants a full post from me due to either lack of opinion or lack of expertise. However, here are some places that have worthwhile views on each of these subjects. Also, don’t forget about the Northeast Ohio PKD… Read more
News A Gift That Makes a Difference Posted on September 11, 2019 By Matt 2019 Northeast Ohio PKD Walk It’s that time of year again! The 2019 Northeast Ohio PKD Walk is on September 21st. As usual, Team William will have its walking shoes on. We’ll trek through the Bedford Reservation and then head back to the Garrott house for hotdogs, burgers, and maybe… Read more
What Happened to the Recession? Posted on August 22, 2019 By Matt Last week was recession week as the brief yield curve inversion launched a thousand headlines promising economic destruction. Every newspaper had a recession headline or story above the fold. Although there were several days of decent market swings, the recession story seems to have run out of gas as people… Read more