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Starting Over

You can bet investors will be phoning their brokers in a week or two when they get their January statements. The phone never rings...

Dislocation in Emerging Market Currencies

What has happened so far this month with the Turkish Lira is what currency dislocation looks like. The Fed’s taper chit-chat is like a...

Live Where You Can Have Your Cake and Eat it Too

If you live here, as it turns out, you can have your cake and eat it too. Where is this diamond in the rough,...

Meet the Bakkens

I was pleasantly surprised to see my favored state of New Hampshire ranked 9th in the annual rankings of millionaire households per capita. The...

“Besieged” by Variable Annuity Cases

In 2012 variable annuity cases were the only class of security where arbitration cases increased. Recently, Diany Nygaard, a Kansas City, MO based lawyer...

Calling the Crash of ‘29

If you look at a enough charts it’s not hard to draw historical comparisons to fit your frame of mind. After reading an article comparing this...

Setting Your Course for 2014

What I’m about to share with you is something I’d like you to share with or teach to your spouse. In 2008 some of...

Your Personal Financial Security Part II

Every Christmas we give our kids their age in cash—a tradition that began with Becky’s parents—making it fun to get older. Hard cold cash...

Bitcoin Worth $524,000?

Bitcoin is a speculative corner of the market. To get a better understanding of it read this article by Brian Wesbury in the WSJ: Right...

Your Greatest Investment

Paul Ewing Lucky you. I get to speak with successful businessmen on a regular basis. Their greatest investment tends to be in their business not...