I do not believe I have used my blog yet to promote this event, but I really think everyone should check this out. It is going to be a tremendous weekend, and is about five weeks away. I believe that in the present context we...
It is not that I dislike being right, but there are times that it pains me to go back and look at pessimistic predictions I made that ended up coming true. And so far, the things I said about the behemoth FinReg bill have been...
Perhaps you heard the news today that California's budget deficit is worse than people thought - as in, um, $25 billion. $25.4 billion to be precise, but I assure you that extra $ 0.4 billion is not causing anyone any anxiety. I mean, what is...
"Good news - the President has announced a reduction of the government work force by one million people (20%). Bad news - the cuts were ordered by President Raul Castro in Cuba." So began the 20th anniversary dinner of The Acton Institute tonight in Grand Rapids,...
I advertised the fact that I was going to see Wall Street 2 on opening day too much, and now after 73 requests that I review it, I feel a bit of a moral obligation to do so. I did say that I was not...
When I was 13 years old I watched a movie with my dad called Wall Street starring Martin Sheen, Charlie Sheen, and Michael Douglas. I didn't understand a lot of it, but I did know that it made me want to work in finance -...
Many of you know that I am a wealth advisor to high net worth individuals and families by profession. I use this website and my various Facebook and Twitter communications for all sorts of things, but I do not use these mediums to discuss investment...
I write from time to time about about a variety of issues that are important to me. It may appear to the casual reader that these writings cover subjects that are all over the map, as at first glance I can see why the connectedness...
Only a few of the books I have read and reviewed for this series have been written by people that I suspect are not particularly intelligent. Many have been authored by men who possess very different economic worldviews than mine, and nearly all have drawn...
Roger Lowenstein's When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management is one of the best books I have ever read about the history of modern finance. So, when I saw that Lowenstein had joined the list of authors chiming on the financial...
