The Financial Forum

This is a reprint from a 2005 Article I wrote regarding the Real Estate Bubble (Before it burst). An interesting re-read for me, after watc...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 1st Portfolio Lending is the new name for Pineapple Lending. Tysons Corner, VA - July 22, 2009 – 1st Portfolio Holdin...

Why do individual investors typically under perform institutional investors? The answer lies in the chart below. Many individual investors...

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers...

The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson With the clarity and verve for which he is known, Ferguson elucidates key financial institutions and c...

Emerging Markets Offer Emerging Opportunities by Neil Macker For many U.S.-based individual investors, emerging markets represent the “Wild ...

The Second Quarter of 2009 most likely marked the beginning of the next bull market and the first increase in the stock market since 2007. ...

The US government is spending trillions of dollars to keep our ailing economy afloat. This has already softened the free fall in the equity...

A year ago I began writing this article, but concluded that the “light at the end of the tunnel” was a train. Again last summer I set pen to...

Do Your Part To Help Economy: Take Some of the Government Hand Outs, Lower Your Mortgage Payments or Buy a New House. Our government is givi...

Here is a great summary of how the stimulus package might effect your taxes: On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed into law the Ameri...

Nearly every mutual fund, index or exchange traded fund has lost significant value in 2008. However, one group, Target Date Funds, specifica...

Many people ask me how the financial sector got so messed up. Here is the best analogy I can give you: Imagine a world where stools are a cr...

In a world of uncertainty, where one hundred and fifty year old financial institutions declare bankruptcy or are seized by the government ov...

by Thomas L. Friedman This is Friedman’s sequel to his widely popular book, The World is Flat. Friedman explains that the old problems of th...

Today’s investment environment is reminiscent of a recent article on fox hunting by Dominic Bliss of The Financial Times, entitled “Manhunt”...

As of September 30, 2008 Nowhere to Hide: All sectors were down in the past 12 months with telecom getting hit the hardest. In the past thre...

Over the weekend, our government seized two of the largest financial institutions in the world, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. They fired the ...

I just received this press release from KLD and wanted to share it. KLD's Global Climate Index has three year anniversary and posts an a...

In my last newsletter I suggested a recession may have begun in the first quarter of this year. I was wrong. The economy squeezed out a 0....