Each of these phrases is dying out in this culture of text messages, abbreviated words and clipped communication. But losing the graciousness of phrases like these – well, we’ll be worse for it.

Home, home on the range…the U.S. stock market seems very at home in the “trading range” it has been in for the last four months. One of the key questions we have been asking in The Joseph Group’s Investment Strategy meetings is “What could make the market break out of this sideways pattern to one direction or another?” In an attempt to answer this question, we’ve tried to look at possibilities in both directions.

Want to be a better leader? Become a better reader. In excerpts below from e-mail blast, author, former CEO and virtual business coach Michael Hyatt, he shares his own perspective on the importance of reading and offers five ways that reading makes us better leaders:

Last week we held the first of what will become a regular event – “Coffee with the CIO” – at The Joseph Group’s offices led by The Joseph Group’s Chief Investment Officer, Travis Upton. Numerous topics were covered, but two main issues were clearly on the clients’ minds – 1) the continued saga of Greece, and 2) where to play offense in order to make money in what has been a flat market.

We are pleased to share with you an important and thought-provoking article from Jack D’Aurora’s June 23rd post on parenthood and, in light of Father’s Day, his thoughts and reflections on his own father.