News & Events

Computers are everywhere. I have three on my desk. How many do you have in your home? What was the world like before computers? In the land of...

Current Events

China – Why It Grew

China is in the news. Their stock market seems to be in free fall; their economy seems to be slowing down; their real estate market is questionable....

Current Events

Challenge Offers Opportunity – Will...

Allegory of the Frog: If you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will jump out. But, if you put a frog in a pot of cold water and slowly bring...

Can I Google Your Wikipedia...

If a man asked a woman in 1986, “Can I Google your Wikipedia with my Palm?” chances are he wouldn’t have enjoyed the response. Now, she’d...

Bull Market

Many major issues will face the United States, and, the world in general over the next several decades. One issue will be how to manage the rising...

Beat the Market With Companies...

Last Friday, Joe Hruska, CEO of RescueTime, joined me on the air to discuss how his company found its nitch. Last year, a Jefferson National survey...

401ks

Big Questions

The Fiduciary Standard says, “A broker or financial advisor must make every decision in the best interest of their client.” Sounds like the right...

Baltimore Stock Broker

To repeat from the beginning: Suppose you received a letter from a financial advisor who told you a certain stock was going up over the next several...

Assumptions

If we plan our financial future with invalid assumptions we will end up with an invalid answer – never a good thing. After all, we know what they...

401ks

Chocolate-Covered Hand Grenades

What is something worth? It’s worth as much as another man or woman is willing to pay for it. When I talk about investing in “chocolate covered...