Watch your back; the year-end hunting season has begun! Although there is certainly no shortage of bad professional advice, misleading media commentary, and...
I'm building a new page at my website that will host links and banners to the websites of my friends, clients, and family. It will be totally free. I'm getting...
Letters to the editor anyone? Listen closely to CNBC, The Wall Street Report, or any other media financial analysis, for these innocent words "Portfolio Window...
In a recent interview with Fortune Magazine writer Justin Fox, Vanguard founder Jack Bogle admits that: "A lot has changed in the Mutual Fund business, and...
the last time that a correction (this one began sometime in June, not in March of 2000 as you know) has not succumbed to a new rally? Answer: NEVER! Sorry, I...
Here's my take on the Bush tax package: First of all, it's business as usual: dedicated to the proposition that everything possible should be done to...
Sure she's a big shot, and a lot of people are convinced that she's not a very nice person, but she really hasn't done anything new or different. She just...
Just follow our "Yellow Brick Road", sayeth "The Wizards of Wall Street", and surely all of your financial goals and expectations will be realized. We've got...
This list of "Rules" appeared in the Wall Street Journal recently, and after reading it, if you thought you had found the simple path to the "holy grail", ...
If it ain't dollar for dollar, it ain't a Money Market Fund! "So what," you say. "It yields so much more than a Money Fund." And what happens when interest...
Investing In and Understanding Fixed Income Securities Wow, here it is time to reissue my primer on Fixed Income Investing! I know this because of several...
What happens when you mix a well-known Attorney General, a big name institution and a controversial book by a Wall Street outsider? Scandals, sure; nationwide...
The 2003 Shock Market recovery is now in its eighth month and it seems poised to move even higher by year-end. It won’t be long before Wall Street market ...
(1) Is there "Investment Life" after Mutual Funds? The investment world (or at least the media) is in a quandary: (2) what is the average investor/speculator...
And the investment gods looked down on lower Manhattan and thought: "This is good! We will create Financial Institutions that will help humans use money to ...
This year, give a gift that keeps on giving. Every one of you knows someone who would have lost less money investing had they read "The Brainwashing of the ...
In two weeks, the 2003 Stock Market Trifecta will be over and little green monsters will replace the sugarplums dancing in your heads. You know, the ones that...
Icebergs and Mutual Funds: the still hidden scandals Mutual Fund scandals continue to hog the financial headlines, growing in scope, and continuing to surprise...
Many of you have enjoyed "The Brainwashing of the American Investor" and you've probably wondered why you've never seen it on display in bookstores. Here's the...
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls of all ages! Please turn your attention to the main ring and welcome back, after a successful international road trip,...
Most investors will tell you that Stock Market Investing is the most difficult to master. After all, that is the venue for erratic price fluctuations caused by...
Every now and then the market (both fixed income and equity this time) retrench for a while as the experts in the Media and on Wall Street try to sort out ...
THE "TOTAL RETURN" SHELL GAME Just what is this "total return" thing that Fixed Income Investment Managers like to talk about, and that Wall Street uses as...
An old (Jan, '03) New York Times article announces a new service that the "M asters of the Universe" are gearing up to provide to the poor unfortunates that ...
Fascinating, isn't it, the stock market! But aren't we "Investors" even more interesting? Have we become the product of this media driven culture that must ...
One of my most respected critics recently chastised me about the length and complexity of my releases and I do admit that, in my efforts to simplify the ...
"How low can it go" has become the operative question as the "Street of Dreams" becomes characterized in the media as one paved with nightmares. Any moment now...
