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 …
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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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 …
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, …
My Comments: We are already well into January and those resolutions we talked about are starting to fade into the background. The reality is that there are forces out there over which we have no control, but if we can somehow anticipate what they are likely to be, we can position ourselves so as to …
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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My Thoughts on This: I recall a conversation I had some 30 years ago with another financial advisor. We were at some conference somewhere and I was roomed with someone from Philadelphia. We had just finished a presentation that dealt with a financial strategy for small business owners. He said he has several small business …
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