My Comments: Some of you will ask why in the world is Tony is bothering to talk about this. It’s because much of my time as a professsional financial advisor is directed toward physicians in private practice who are frustrated and fearful of what the rest of us call Obamacare. This legislation is going to …
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China’s Rising Pool of College Grads – and Expectations
My Thoughts on This: From time to time, I find nothing I want to share with readers of this blog. Some of what I run across is so technical that I suspect most of you would simply read three lines and say to hell with it. Can’t blame you much. One topic that keeps coming …
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Is it Always Best to Avoid Probate When Estate Planning?
My Thoughts on This: Please keep in mind that I am NOT an attorney so have very little standing to make comments and recommendations when it comes legal issues. Going back more years than I care to remember, and mindful that many of my clients are in age similar to me, plans to effectively transfer …
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The Feminization of Politics
My Thoughts About This: This is essentially the blog post from January 16th by Tom Barnett. Though not stated, it’s clear to me that if we are to have a rational Republican Party going forward, those old white guys now in charge are going to have to go. Otherwise, they and the party are going …
Is the Bond Bear Market Finally Here?
By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne The broad high-quality bond market began 2013 on a sour note with a sell-off, posting its worst weekly performance since March 2012, as U.S. Treasury prices declined on news of a fiscal cliff resolution, LPL Financial’s bond expert reported Tuesday. While LPL doesn’t believe the sell-off is the start of a …
The Crisis of the Middle Class and American Power
My Comments: Yesterday, a friend attended a luncheon where the speaker focused on our “debt crisis”. His position was that it is much worse that suspected, that it approaches $65 Trillion. That’s Trillion, with a “T”. I have no way to know if this is true or not, but to whatever extent it is real, …
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Top 15 Best Paying College Degrees
My Comments: Over the last few years, I've been trying to develop the idea that there is money to be had to pay for a college education if you only know where to find it. All colleges and universities have endowment money to spend and award to those students they want enrolled. The trick is …
Bullish Bets Rising In Commodities
My Comments: For some years now, there has been a slowly growing recognition that the investment world has more than two basic elements. We’ve always thought stocks and bonds. Sure, there were always outliers but they were never given the same formal recognition given to stocks and bonds. Today, many of us refer to the …
The Smartest Kid In Summer School
My Thoughts on This: Many of us in the investment world are wondering, as we always do at the beginning of every year, how this new one is going to unfold. After all, we get paid to help our client’s accounts grow, not shrink. So we read the tea leaves like everyone else and come …
My eBook is Now Published!
Last week I uploaded a file to a site called Smashwords, and a yesterday, I received word that it had been reviewed and approved. I am now a published author. Here is the link: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/270686 As you can perhaps imagine, this is not a casual read. And though the book is only 15 pages long, …
Helping Define Your Financial Future 