THE MONTH IN BRIEF December lived up to its promise as one of the better months of the year for stocks, with the S&P 500 gaining 6.53%.1 It was a strangely quiet time on Wall Street, and the biggest news item of the month was good news for investors. It didn’t take long for President Obama and Congressional Republicans to reach a tax compromise, one with demonstrable benefits for all Americans. In December we learned[…]

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