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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Germany Is Delusional To The Point Of Insanity
My Comments: Assertive headlines such as what you see here are usually outside my comfort zone. For one it implies a pathology that I’m not trained to comment on and two, Europe and European values are different from mine, given that I’ve lived here in the US for the past 65 years. (Warning: this post …
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15 Reasons To Sell Most Stocks Now
My Comments: I’m starting to sound like a broken record. If you are not in a position to profit from a bear market, you need to talk with me. Bert Dohmen, Founder, Dohmen Capital Research Group Jan 15, 2015 The start of the year has been one of the worst ever for the stock market. …
Buy the Rumor, Sell the News
My Comments: As a financial advisor for almost 40 years, you’d think by now I would have this all down cold. That I’ve survived in this profession suggests I have at least a reasonable understanding of how “investing money” is supposed to work. Either that or I’m very good at talking people into doing dumb …
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