In 2008, the world was in the crushing grip of “The Great Recession.” To offer assurance to my clients that the sun would indeed rise tomorrow, I started writing this blog. I explained that it was a global financial crisis, not “your father’s Great Depression” and explained the differences . . . numerous times.

At first, I published a new blog entries frequently, as the “hand-holding” was pretty much full time. However, as time passed and the stock market stabilized and started improving, I wrote less frequently.

Over the years, I drifted back to my first love — our economic environment! Occasionally, I stumbled into political subjects and readers became both animated and agitated. I remembered my father’s advice to avoid any discussion of religion or politics, learning that it is actually safer to discuss religion than politics – who knew?

After love of country, love of my wife, and love of our blind, rescue cat, I confess to loving the sloppy elegance of economics. To the extent there is overlap between economics and politics . . . too bad!

For the last three months, I’ve written no new entries, while deciding who is my audience. Just clients? Fellow financial advisors? General public? Human beings? Just who?

It’s me — my own audience! I’m back to writing about what I’m interested in . . . I suggest you find the unsubscribe button!

Future entries will be shorter – not the standard three-paragraphs that English professors recommend. Sometimes, the entry will be one-sentence! Sometimes, it might even be three pages! No rules . . . except SEC rules of course, forbidding individual advice or any sort of guarantees.

I feel like I’m closing the first drawer on the The Flinchum File and opening the second . . .