Stock Buybacks Are Killing the American Economy

My Comments: This is a helpful analysis if you are like me and worried about our financial future. Retirement planning and what to do with our money so it grows and remains safe for the future is what I do. I’m not sure I like it all the time, but at this stage of my …

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7 Quick Points On Europe

My Comments: My purpose with this post is to confuse you. Yes, that’s right, to confuse you. That’s because even though I claim to be a financial professional of almost 40 years duration, I’m confused. And I don’t want to feel alone. This came across my inbox inside a newsfeed I look at daily which …

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The Good News Behind GDP’s Decline

My Comments: For almost four years now, I’ve posted ideas and comments that related to the economy, to investing, sometimes to politics, sometimes just weird stuff. The idea was to give me an outlet where I could be free to share ideas that I thought might be helpful to friends and clients and whomever happened …

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Medicare Advantage after PPACA

My Comments: OK, I understand it; you’re sick and tired of posts about the PPACA and the crap our so-called leaders in Congress are doing to muddy the waters. Unfortunately, access to affordable health care is what tends to keep us alive, never mind that the system is mostly a sickness treatment system and not …

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Good Company, Bad Stock

My Comments: This post is to remind you that stock market performance and the state of the economy do not follow the same track. From time to time there are close parallels, but they dance to a different drummer. My arguments that the stock market is due for a crash are unrelated to the state …

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Group Health Insurance is Bad For America

My Comments: Followers of this blog know my reasons for wanting to keep the PPACA in place, mindful of the need for a lot of modifications. What you may not know was about 40 years ago I cut my teeth in the insurance world selling individual health insurance policies. My market was staff and faculty …

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Tricks of the Mind Turned Oil Into Gold

My Comments: Once again, I have a blog post about OIL. Clients are asking me how was it possible for the price of oil to rise as far as it did just a year ago and yet here we are, with the per barrell price 40% of what it used to be. If it’s economically …

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Military Retirement Faces Shake-up

My Comments: I did not serve in the military; I failed my draft physical way back in 1959. They gave me a 1-Y classification that said ‘only in case of national emergency’. I don’t think I was upset since by then I was a freshman at the University of Florida and VietNam was looming on …

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Social Security: 5 Facts You Must Know

My Comments: With the GOP now controlling the House and Senate, there is increased talk about threats to the Social Security system. After all, this is a socialist program, designed to help the financially weakest among us. I’ve long maintained that small tweaks, similar to what Congress has already done some 20-25 years ago, will …

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PUNS …

My Comments: For some reason this has been both a stressful and satisfying week. My observation is that progress is being made on several fronts, both personal and globally. It's Friday, and my mind is ready for a little levity. So... please keep your groans to yourself. Thanks. 1. The fattest knight at King Arthur's …

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