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Van Morrison’s Keep It Simple

Van the Man’s Keep It Simple: Whoa we got to get back to something simple just to save yourselves Well got to get back to something...

A Love Story about Private Wealth

You’ll be hard-pressed to find a better love story than this courtesy of Seth Siegel at the WSJ: How does one overcome almost unimaginable horror...

Mafia Impresario Meyer Lansky: The Riviera Story

My friend Jack Colhoun wrote the book on Cuba. It’s called Gangsterismo: The United States, Cuba and The Mafia, 1933 to 1966. In his...

Hedge Funds on Wrong Side of Brexit

What will be the bigger loss for hedge funds, the money lost on their exclusive exit polls, or bets that are no longer in...

RAGE Gauge: Can’t Get No Satisfaction!

Another component of my RAGE Gauge is Americans' dissatisfaction with the direction of the country as measured by Gallup's poll of "Satisfaction With the...

Investing in Water

You can learn a tremendous amount about investment trends by thinking in terms of your family’s survivals needs. Lately, I’ve been keenly interested in...

RAGE Gauge: The Real Unemployment Rate

The typical headline unemployment numbers the American news media reports (U3) are inadequate for measuring not just unemployment, but underemployment. Many part time employees...

Hooked on a Feeling: It’s What Separates the Best from the Rest

Do you want to know what investing is to me? It’s a feeling. To have a feeling for the market, like sailing a boat,...

Meet the One Person Every Business in the World Needs

Happy Memorial Day Weekend. Time for remembrance. Time for summer. Time to get to work. When I was a kid I had three different jobs:...

Jimmy Buffett’s: A Pirate Looks at 40

Make sure you have a chance to appreciate where you’re going and where you’ve been. Jimmy Buffett put on a pop-up show Monday in Austin,...