Lee Thornton, Independent Financial Advisor

01/17/2025

Public service announcement: the traffic lights at town center and 75
In Sherman and on the east side of 75 are not working be very careful.

03/23/2024

This dog has been here and barking since this morning in the Waterloo Park area- Denison. DAWG & City Pound are full.

03/23/2024

Both & the Denison City Pound are full. If this is your dog it’s in the Waterloo Park area.

04/22/2023

There was a resounding “HERE” for my dad, Homer L. Thornton, Jr. Class of ‘54! At the Lamar County A&M Club Aggie Muster Ceremony ! Thank you family & Aggie family for honoring him with ‘the spirit that can nere be told … it’s the spirit of Aggieland!”

AGGIE MUSTER: Lamar County A&M Club - Paris Golf & Country Club.

12/19/2022

Amazing low tech ag process of turning plants into meat. 😁

10/03/2022

Thee Federal gov is too large. The bigger it grows the smaller the citizen’s spendable income is; that’s without accounting for inflation’s impact on the goods and services families can purchase.

Rep. Lauren Beobert (R-CO) refuses to cede the floor as she attacks the Inflation Reduction Act.Stay ConnectedForbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbesForbes ...

07/21/2022

Perhaps the most erudite 29+ minutes you may ever hear. Listen to the end.

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07/12/2022

Explanation needed!

03/07/2022

As we roll out of the pandemic into economic recovery, First Trust provides us the unspun economic data so we can understand for ourselves without pandemic laden twisted economic reporting. You're smart and can determine for yourselves and not live in fear of earthly phenomenon.

03/07/2022

This from First Trust; A very reliable source of unspun data !

COVID-19 was not a hoax, but it was the world's first Social Media pandemic, where fear was spread in a way we have never seen before. Our goal with the COVID-19 Tracker was to provide a data driven piece to put the pandemic in perspective.

The information we presented was used by the White House, Congress, the press, educational institutions from universities to high schools, and of course, the Financial Advisor community. The reason we think it was so widely used was that we presented factual data in a way that helped minimize fear.

What this data has consistently shown since the beginning of the pandemic was that those most at risk were a small subset of the population. Those 65 years and older make up only 16.3% of the population, but have accounted for nearly 75% of all COVID-19 deaths as of 3/2/2022.* In our opinion, focusing resources on the most vulnerable individuals, instead of locking down the entire country, would have resulted in better outcomes from both a public health and economic perspective. As history looks back, we believe locking down the economy will be viewed as one of the most damaging public policy mistakes in world history.

The shutdowns destroyed supply chains, put millions out of work, hurt the young by eliminating in-person learning, damaged mental health, caused the delay of important screenings for other health problems, and led to a government spending spree of over $5 trillion. We are now dealing with the costs of those shutdowns and while we can't assess the long-term sociological problems, we do know that the economic data continues to improve. You can follow our weekly Recovery Tracker here.

The U.S. and other western countries have seen case counts from the Omicron wave of COVID-19 collapse over the past several weeks, and it now looks clear that the worst of this wave of the virus is behind us. As a result, and in conjunction with widespread population immunity due to vaccination and prior infection, restrictions are starting to be removed at a rapid rate around the world. It's important to remember that seasonality plays a big part in the spread of this virus, and cases could always rise once again, but for now it looks like the status quo of lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine passports, etc. over the past two years may be coming to an end.

The lagging effects of the draconian response to this pandemic will continue to be felt for years to come as will the long-term economic consequences from government spending and money printing. But it seems clear that confidence is returning, the pandemic is waning and the economy continues to recover. As a result, we have decided it's time to end the First Trust COVID-19 Tracker. This final Tracker is two pages. We hope you found our Tracker a port in the COVID-19 storm.