Dr. Richard Baker

Dr. Richard Baker, AIF®, is the CEO and executive wealth advisor at Fervent Wealth Management.   My dad caught my brother and me having a BB gun war. I hid behind a tractor tire trying to shoot my brother's baseball cap off, and my brother was using his Daisy BB gun to try to give me another cowlick. When Dad came around the corner, there was an immediate ceasefire. Hopefully, the Middle East ceasefire won't be as painful as our BB war.   Shortly after news broke about a two-week ceasefire...

Dr. Richard Baker, AIF®, is the CEO and executive wealth advisor at Fervent Wealth Management.   When I was in high school, the baseball team on the north end of our county had a pitcher with a killer 12-6 curveball. He made us look silly with our big swings and misses. That is, until we figured out his signs and started hitting him hard. We could be seeing signs right now that might help us hit some stocks out of the park.   As the first quarter of the market year comes to a close, it looks...

Here are five reasons why the U.S. economy has been insulated from this current crisis and why U.S. stock markets aren’t overreacting.