Prepare your clients' heirs to receive their inheritance; you'll have a better chance of becoming THEIR financial advisor instead of just being mom and dad's. Here are two facts that should scare any financial advisor: First, over 90 percent of...
There is an amusing item in the New York section of the Wall Street Journal. Apparently, Albany is so hurting for cash that it is now enforcing a little-known tax on bagels . . . that is, if you slice a bagel, you pay around $0.08 in tax. ...
That the gub'ment (say in your best Michigan militia accent) messes up the market's pricing mechanism is nothing new. From rent control in New York City to the capital markets, legislators and gub'ment bureaucrats have a tendency to create...
I love this missive from the SEC this afternoon. So, not only are politicians great at kowtowing to special interests and spending taxpayers money wastefully, they're also right in there in decieving investors --- right along with those Wall...
You've got to love John Stossel, the once liberal ABC news crusader against big business turned libertarian and who now has a show on Fox Business Network. On Reason magazine's blog yesterday (Reason is a libertarian journal/website), Stossel...
The Tax Foundation website and blog are worth bookmarking. This excerpt from the Tax Foundation's blog on the fight over extending the Bush tax cuts is worth reading and perhaps even sending to clients (those clients who like to talk politics...
I look forward to Leuthold Weeden's giant research book, called the Green Book for the color of its jacket. Leuthold is heavily quantitative and often digs up interesting contrarian nuggests. In full disclosure, I have a small investment in the...
