My Comments: Professionally, I live in the world of finance and investments. Regulation is pervasive, most likely increasing, since there is a pervasive threat of abuse by the big players. I think it would help all of us to have a level playing field, including individuals, corporate America, and society as a whole. I cannot …
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World Weather Gone Haywire: Effect On… and the Economy
My Comments: No, we are not doomed. But it’s worth paying attention to from time to time. If you are looking for solace, you won’t find it here. My cousin in England just wrote to tell me their weather is noxious and unpleasant. Have you thought about the price of vegetables and fruit in the …
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Some Hints About Inflation
My Comments: How many of you remember the inflation numbers from the late 70’s? 12% comes to mind. And was that ever exciting and frightening. Since then, the people who pull most of the strings have been sensitive to this and have taken steps to keep inlfation under control. The other extreme from high inflation …
Ten Brands That Will Disappear in 2014
My Comments: From time to time we see predictions about all sorts of things. But as time passes, they fade into oblivion and rarely do we consider whether any of those predictions came to pass. We give great credence to those who make those predictions since they usually appear in print, or on television, and …
Removing Saddam Hussein Did Not Cause This Crisis
My Comments: The price of oil is increasing. The news is full of both the World Cup and Iraq. How will any of this affect our investments? And, of course, as always, it depends. At first glance one might dismiss the author as expressing a self-serving platitude. On second glance, you remember he rose to …
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3 Retirement Planning Essentials to Understand
My Comments: I’ve now reduced retirement years to three types of years. They are “go-go”, “slow-go” and “no-go”. Planning for them before you reach retirement is a matter of attempting to get as many $ in the pot as possbile. After that, it’s a timing issue that is driven by health, the expected life style, …
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The Cost of Medical Care – Where Do you Live in the US?
These cities are all over the map—and so are their medical prices My Comments: A lot of my posts lately have been about healthcare. I guess that’s because as I get older, I find myself paying more and more attention to my personal health circumstances. It doesn’t help that my clients are also older and …
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US Health Care System Ranks Dead Last
My Comments: For the past several days I’ve been involved in a fantastic LinkedIn discussion about why so many foreigners come to this country for medical care when we rank dead last in globally published metrics. The gist of it is that if you can afford it, we are fantastic, but if you can’t, then …
The Rise of Tactical Asset Allocation
My Comments: Yesterday I talked about investment risk, and how we, both clients and advisors alike, should understand it. Today, I’m reposting an article that describes, for me, a way to help clients achieve their perceived objectives, and keep the risk element under control. As before, risk is not to be avoided, but to be …
The Paradox of Investment Risk
My Comments: First, let’s both understand we are talking about financial risk. Second, financial risk for me is likely to be defined differently from how you define it. Third, there is always an element of uncertainty about any future outcome, whether it's getting married, having children, accepting a new job, etc. Uncertainty implies a potentially …
Helping Define Your Financial Future 