Emergency Federal Reserve Meetings?
The Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen and President Obama are meeting today in an emergency meeting. If that is not alarming enough, that meeting is also including Vice President Biden. There is an important article you should read…
A $400,000 mistake?
by Jason I. Henderson, Ph.D.
I’ve been having some fun asking people questions. These questions help me understand people in general, but also allow me the potential opportunity to do what I love to do - help others achieve their…
Spending more on Health Care vs. Social Security
"We the people" is often used when we talk about liberty and justice for all. It is not a phrase used very often when we talk about things that are not so noble, such as spending. When we talk about spending, we use "the government" as if…
Who will be able to afford health insurance?
The news is here, premiums for the lowest health plan will have premium increases on average of about 10 percent or more with many in the upper teens and some in the 20 and even 30 percent range.
The average deductible for these…
Rent Term, Let it Lapse and Squander the Rest.
For decades, the rallying cry of the financial advice industry has been for clients to buy inexpensive term life insurance rather than more expensive whole life insurance and invest the premium savings on their own. The only problem is most…
Taxes Destroy Wealth
My title is a bit bold, but math will prove me right. No, I am not going to use multi-dimensional calculus or other forms of advanced math. The “complicated” math I am going to use is simply done using a compounding or future…
Why are Americans so angry?
Are you angry? It seems to me that those who are not angry are blissfully ignorant of what is really going on. I have had readers of this blog complain that my illumination of the truth tends to shatter their "reality." I am interested in…
Stock Market Crash Imminent?
I have been suggesting to every one of my clients, everyone who attends my speeches, and everyone who reads my blog or receives my newsletter for almost two and a half years, that a stock market crash is imminent. For two and a half years…
What does Former Fed Chaiman Ben Bernanke know you do not?
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Particularly when it comes to getting a few hours of Ben Bernanke's time. The former chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve charges from $200,000 to $400,000 for speaking engagements at private equity…
Driving Blind!
Take a look at this picture:
I know this will sound rhetorical, but does this make any sense?
Given what I have read and what I have published in this blog and elsewhere, driving with a blind fold makes as much sense to me as…
