Financial Advisors

To decode Wall Street is to tear down those conventionally held wisdoms fed to the average Joe by the men and women controlling the global flow of mooolah, in addition to trying to make sense of their funny jargon (see the “Financial Jargon Word of the Day” on our homepage). We have a couple more...

A recent Bloomberg Businessweek article, “Mr. Normal Meets Mrs. Merkel” got me thinking. Why are Americans screaming about their tax levels? We have among the lowest federal tax rates in the civilized world and certainly the lowest our country has experienced in the past several decades. In the...

Let’s say you own a single share in a single company. Four times a year the company as required by law (be smart: governing agency is the SEC) will release its quarterly earnings (sound smart: 8-k). Normally this will happen during “earnings season”, an intense month long season for the on and...

In the mid-1980s discoveries in biotechnology were revealed and investors piled-into many new companies like Genentech and Amgen. But the technology was yet to produce profits for many years to come. Mutual fund companies devoted some funds to this new area of investment but it took over a decade...

With so much written about Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), I am amazed that so few have focused on the most important driver of its stock price: the company 270% return on invested capital ("ROIC"). The most common bear arguments for AAPL are: The stock has gone up so much already, it cannot continue It is...

The inability of the masses to grasp investment community and corporate jargon are problems that keep us awake at night. Due to the confusion that drips from financial words such as “deep dive”, “euro headwinds”, and “haven flows” finance is generally ignored by people other than to pay bills or...

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The New York Times’ reporters covering Europe’s financial, social, and political crises continue to channel Berlin and demonstrate an ignorance of economics so profound that it rivals the Wall Street Journal’s editorial writers and columnists. On May 18, 2012 the NYT published “Rising Greek...

There are nearly 30 ETFs oriented to the energy sector. The following analysis features a fair representation of ETFs available. We believe from these investors may choose an appropriate ETF to satisfy the best index-based and “enhanced” linked index offerings individuals and financial advisors may...

The recent news of Best Buy’s (NYSE: BBY) store closings is just a continuation of the travails of bricks and mortar retail. Walk the streets of any metropolitan downtown and you can’t help but notice the increasing vacancies. Both strip and traditional malls have difficulty maintaining tenants...