Medical malpractice insurance is not a topic that comes readily to mind when you are having a casual conversation with someone. It’s out there in never-never land unless you are a physician, in which case it has more than a little relevance. Twenty years ago, it made the news almost weekly, when there was a …
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Transatlantic Pact Promises Bigger Prize
My Thoughts on This: As an investment advisor with clients who depend on my judgment about where to put their money, I tend to follow economics and global politics with a profesional interest. This article comes from Great Britain. There are almost always pros and cons to consider when playing the financial odds about the …
Panel: No Need To Sweat The End Of 30-Year Bond Rally
My Comments: All of this reinforces my advice as a financial advisor for my clients to use the programs from Purcell Advisory Services. Yes, this is a commercial, but if you have money to invest, and are not happy with where it is or the folks allegedly looking after it, click on this maze image …
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Corporations Are Sitting on More Cash Because There’s More Cash To Sit On
My Comments: This is one of the reasons why so many people expect the markets, especially the stock market, to do well in 2013. One of the uses for all this cash is to buy back stock, which in turn reduces the supply, and if you know a little bit about economics, if you reduce …
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Trans-Atlantic Ties Still Key to Renewing U.S. Global Leadership
My Comments: An attempt here to start the week with a more positive spin on what many of us see as the world in chaos. Yes, I’m supposed to see the world through the eyes of an investment specialist, and mostly, I do. But the role played by the US, and by extension, each one …
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Intervention: the US Won’t, Europe Can’t
My Comments: Most of you know that I am a center left Democrat. And I want the Republican Party to become relevant in American politics. That’s what going to keep the Democrats from moving too far to the left. Which is where they will go if there isn’t a legitimate, electable force coming from the …
Coalition Fights Florida Retirement System Changes
By Paula Aven Gladych A bill scheduled for consideration today in the Government Operations Subcommittee of the Florida House of Representatives would weaken a healthy retirement system, raise taxpayer costs and force more Floridians to rely on social services, according to opponents of the measure. The bill would close the Florida Retirement System defined benefit …
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To College or Not to College
I've spent a lot of time in the last few years trying to help parents and their college bound students realize there is a source of money to help pay for college that does not have to be paid back. Every college and university has funds they can use to support and encourage the students …
Hedging Against Retirees’ Big Fears
My Comments: This is a long post so beware. But it serves to express clearly three topics that I encounter almost every time I have a heart to heart talk with a retired, or soon to be retired client. It’s not intended to increase your fears, but rather put what fears there are in perspective …
At Last, an Original Thought!
I don’t remember the last time I said something to the effect that “I’d give my right arm to be able to do________________.” What I’m looking for right now is the ability to express an original thought about how I feel about gun control, given the nature of the national debate. Then last night my …
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