Resources - Gates Wealth Solutions of Raymond James

Higher oil prices complicate monetary policy

6/13/2025

Chief Economist Eugenio J. Aleman discusses current economic conditions.

Economy & Policy

Lost opportunity, closed window and measurement issues

6/6/2025

Chief Economist Eugenio J. Aleman discusses current economic conditions.

Economy & Policy

Court delivers good news on tariffs, but…

5/30/2025

Chief Economist Eugenio J. Aleman discusses current economic conditions.

Economy & Policy

The big beautiful bill: Stimulus now, tightening later

5/23/2025

Chief Economist Eugenio J. Aleman discusses current economic conditions.

Economy & Policy

Tariff relief a positive but high uncertainty remains

4/9/2025

In response to the 90-day pause on "reciprocal" tariffs, announced April 9, Managing Director, Washington Policy Analyst Ed Mills provides in-depth analysis of potential paths forward.

Economy & Policy

Tariff policy: potential paths and endgames

4/6/2025

In response to the April 2 “reciprocal” tariff announcement, Managing Director, Washington Policy Analyst Ed Mills and team provide in-depth analysis of potential paths forward.

Economy & Policy

Questions linger following latest tariff announcement

4/3/2025

The incremental tariffs were bolder than market expectations and ushered in new uncertainty.

Economy & Policy

Debt limit debate comes back into focus

2/10/2025

While the expectation is Congress will raise the debt ceiling, the process is likely to be volatile.

Economy & Policy

Infographic: The Fed and the fuss, demystified

Explore how the Fed keeps the economy on track through monetary policy, and how its moves ultimately ripple outward.

Economy & Policy

Price is what you pay; value is what you get. Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.

While enthusiasm may be necessary for greater accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster.

Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections or trying to anticipate corrections than has been lost in corrections themselves.

Be fearful when others are greedy; be greedy when others are fearful.

In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.

The four most dangerous words in investing are: ‘This time it's different.’

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.

In the short term. the market is a voting machine. In the long term, it is a weighing machine.

You make most of your money in a bear market; you just don’t realize it at the time.

Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

In this business, if you’re good, you’re right six times out of 10. You are never going to be right nine times out of 10.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn’t, pays it.

The most important quality for an investor is temperament and not intellect.

It is better to be roughly right than be precisely wrong.