Adult children are living at home longer than in the recent past, and in some cases returning home after having lived on their own for a while. The obvious reason behind this is economics, but there are some benefits too…
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Is it the FBI or the Keystone Cops?
The FBI is launching a criminal investigation into J.P. Morgan Chase and Co’s $2 billion-plus trading loss, according to the May 16 edition of the Boston Globe. I wonder if...
Attacking Waste and Mismanagement in Health Care
Did you know that the quality of health care can actually increase with a decrease in cost? In an article in today’s Boston Globe entitled “In Health Care, Cheaper Can Mean...
How to Die Like a Doctor
Here’s a painful, and sometimes funny, look at how key legislative decisions are made in Washington, D.C., which you are encouraged to share with your friends: click here. If you want to fix the problem of rising costs in the U.S. healthcare system, or at least reduce the looming Medicare/Medicaid entitlement burden, there’s a surprisingly easy solution…
Where Are the Criminals?
A recent article in the Daily Ticker on the Yahoo Finance page discussed the fact that the Obama administration has not succeeded in prosecuting Wall Street executives for...
Brokerizing Financial Advice
Under normal circumstances, we try not to burden our clients with the details of the regulatory issues we deal with, except to periodically send you notification of our status and any changes in the way we do business…
Sleight of Hand Accounting Picking our Pockets
The problem with ObamaCare is that figures do not lie but liars figure! Not only is the legislation bloated at 925 pages, it is so expensive that $397 billion in revenue...
A Dubious Recovery
There is an old saying: "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king," and that is precisely the situation we find ourselves in economically. From most statistics,...
Integral Wealth Management – What Does It Really Mean?
We continually state that Integral Wealth Management involves more than just asset management. Well, what does this really mean?…
Debit Card Woes
While using a debit card can seem like a good way to avoid spending money you don’t have, there are some security issues with using a debit card that don’t affect credit...
What Sugar and Collateralized Debt Obligations Have in Common
Sometimes with the best intentions, the US government, as all governments do, makes a bigger mess by trying to fix a problem. Back in the 1970s there was a great uproar...
Hear the Markets Roar
Who could possibly have guessed? After all the discussion in the press about the long economic slowdown, last year’s downgrade of American sovereign debt, talk of double-dip recessions and looming crises in Europe and China, the U.S. investment markets turned around…
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