While there are still challenges, there are opportunities for recovery My Thoughts About This: The older I get, the shorter my time horizon gets for convincing others of my success as an investment advisor. If I thought I would need the money fifty years from now, there is little question how it should be invested. …
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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
Let me know if any of this works! Geoffrey James Happiness is the only true measure of personal success. Making other people happy is the highest expression of success, but it's almost impossible to make others happy if you're not happy yourself. With that in mind, here are nine small changes that you can make …
My Comments: This came as a reminder to me that none of has a contract with God to be here tomorrow, much less a few years from now. And there are things you should anticipate and take care of to make sure your family is not turned upside down when that lack of contract turns …
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Stock guru sees extended run-up for stocks; 'everybody into the pool' My Comments: Laszlo Birinyi is one of those people who have made both good and bad predictions before yet are almost always seen as having a better insight into the future than the rest of us. Whether we hit a record high in 2013 …
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