Current Perspectives

The news is abuzz with the new proposals by the Democrats to greatly expand the Federal budget.   A lot of the news isn’t actually about what is in the budget but how it could get paid for, because paying for it means tax law changes.  Like all legislation, the current tax proposals circulating Congress […]

The U.S. investment markets continued to defy gravity in the second quarter of the year, closing out the month of June—and the first half of 2021—at new record highs.  This is the fifth consecutive quarter where the U.S. markets posted gains. Economic conditions provided a perfect backdrop for stocks during the 2nd quarter of 2021.  […]

Quarterly Investment Commentary January, 2021 2020 was a strange year from a number of directions, including the U.S. investment markets and economy.  In light of the economic data, and what we can all observe by simply looking around, it seemed that investment markets defied logic altogether.   Once again, what investors experienced during 2020 illustrated the […]

By Michael Donahoe 2020 was a year of substantial and unprecedented change. We were forced to adjust to new ways of socializing, doing business, and even enjoying food from a restaurant. With all these changes, we’d like to share with you how Harvest Asset Group responded to the “new normal” so we could continue providing […]

By Michael Donahoe We have been living in this new normal for months now, and although many of us have adapted to the major changes that turned our lives upside down, a cloud of uneasiness still looms large. Even the term “uncertain times” doesn’t do justice to the scary or frustrating circumstances in which we […]