My Comments: I’ve discovered that when I don’t have a full schedule ahead of me when I wake up, I tend to have negative thoughts about growing old. Since I can’t change the growing old part, my goal now is to do whatever it takes to keep as busy as possible. I like what I …
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5 Reasons Americans Have the Economic Blahs
TK: “My sentiments, exactly!” By Drew DeSilver | July 25, 2013 Four years into the current recovery, the views of most Americans about the economy can be summed up as “meh.” According to a Pew Research Center survey conducted last week, 45% of Americans rate the national economy as “only fair,” and 37% call its …
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Your Grandchildren Have No Value
My Comments: I read this writers articles from time to time as his primary focus is the world of investments and how to make money. That's also my professional world. When this one crossed my screen, I took notice since the issue of climate change is very real, in my opinion, and will become an …
Estate Planning is Dead — Long Live Retirement Planning!
My Comments: While these comments were directed toward advisors like me, they are representative of something that happens to many of us over time. What we are trained to do, and from which we earn a living, changes and we become irrelevant. An example happened in Detroit, once the heart of American car manufacturing. And …
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Am I Guilty? (And if I am, What Happens Next?)
My Comments: I’m interested in the debate about privacy, how it’s defined these days (or NOT), and as a society immersed in digital communication, how the boundaries of “acceptable” behavior are ultimately established to the benefit of ALL of us. By definition in the US Code, this blog post could be defined as “giving comfort …
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Bernanke Signals Flexibility on Tapering
My Comments: A few weeks ago, the Federal Reserve Board met and then Ben Bernanke made some comments to the effect that what is knows as Quantitative Easing, or QE, was about to end. The markets went nuts, the day to day volatility in the markets was off the charts, and investors were not happy …
Globalisation in a Time of Transition
My Comments: For investors, being exposed to the global markets is a given. But it wasn’t so long ago that if you invested outside the US, you were either nuts or exceptionally aggressive. Early in my days as an investment advisor, I became associated with a firm in Winter Park, FL called International Assets Advisory …
Malala Yousafzai Celebrated Her 16th Birthday By Giving an Incredible Speech at the U.N.
My Comments: This is an extraordinary young woman. I challenge you to watch the whole thing and reflect on how someone her age can cause so many to stop and listen. Her message must be heard. It also gives me renewed faith that our young people are up to the task of leading the world …
How Much Is Your Privacy Worth?
My Comments: My post from July 1, 2013 (Snooping...) suggested that as a society we have to come to terms with what is acceptable and what is not acceptable and encode into our legal system, boundaries that cannot be crossed. We do that already with traffic laws, none of which had any relevance when the …
J.P. Morgan Weekly Market Recap – July 9, 2013
My original idea was to post these every week or so. Many people like to make their own investment decisions and this recap is a great way to gain insight into what is going on globally. This weekly broadcast from J. P. Morgan will give you some insights as to what is going on right …
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