PLAIN
JANE MUTUAL FUNDS COULD BE BEST
BOCA RATON, FLA. (Dec. 4, 2002)--When it comes to long-term mutual fund
investing, perhaps it's best for most investors not to try to "reinvent
the
wheel."
WHAT
WALL STREET NEEDS FROM SANTA
LAKE
WORTH, FLA. (Dec. 11, 2002)--Santa
George looked down from his sleigh
and decided that Wall Street needs
a new ribbon-wrapped Treasury Secretary,
SEC Chairman, and Chief Economic
Advisor. Santa George was wrong.
EMPEROR'S
CLUB HAS WALL STREET LESSONS
LAKE
WORTH, FLA. (Nov. 25, 2002)--Kevin
Kline's new Thanksgiving week flick "The
Emperor's Club" won't beat Harry
Potter or James Bond at the box office,
but perhaps it should be mandatory
viewing in the front office.
THE
WAKE THAT WOKE UP THE BULL MARKET
BOCA
RATON, FLA. (Nov. 6, 2002)--Little
did the late Sen. Paul Wellstone know
that his own wake could have been the
catalyst for sparking a bull stock
market rally.
OPEN
LETTER TO FORD. BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE
"Make
it patriotic and cool to own shares
of Ford, before it's too late."
MORE
THAN 3,000 PEOPLE WERE KILLED AS THEY GOT THEIR
COFFEE, ANSWERED THE PHONE, AND TOOK A PLANE
TRIP TO SEE THE GRANDKIDS
Mr biz responds to
an email
TABLOID
ADVICE FROM THE REAL "TAILOR OF PANAMA"
With
apologies to John Le Carre and
a grade B movie starring Pierce
Brosnan, we take you now to Panama´s
sleaziest, but largest-circulation
newspaper, for advice on business,
life, and the human spirit, as
told by the real ¨Tailor of
Panama.¨
First, with due respect to the tabloid La Critica, which thankfully cuts through
the daily political pomposity of some other dailies, today they did have the
good sense to put the indefinite postponement of the space journey of boy toy
Lance Bass on page 30. more..
IF
TOMORROW NEVER COMES...IT WON'T MATTER
El
Valle de Anton, PANAMA (11 Sept 2002)--Three thousand
people going
about their business one year ago, learned that if tomorrow never comes.
means more than the poetic title to a Garth Brooks song.
There are no guarantees of another precious day of life. There are no
guarantees that unsaid words of love, or a hug today, can be made up tomorrow. more...
A
WEIRD (MONTE)VIDEO GAME
LAKE
WORTH, FLA. (Aug. 7. 2002)--I'm not
an investment banker in Uruguay
nor do I play one on TV. But what if--just what if, I'm on to something here?
I literally shook my head upon awakening at my usual 4 a.m. the other morning
to check international markets, to clear the cobwebs and my ear drums when I
heard that U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill was enroute to the capital of
Uruguay
with a $1.5 billion bailout check to save the South American country's banking
industry.
more..
WALL
STREET'S CRYSTAL BALL
I
just smile politely when people parrot, "Well,
of course nobody can
predict the market...." because in a world of rocket scientists,
practitioners, and savvy veteran traders and floor specialists, the
macro-trends can be, and have been repeatedly predicted by the brave few who
are contrarians for many decades. more...
WARNING:
DO NOT BUY STOCKS!
A client who owns
a growing fitness club and is building
a larger
club, has lost 10 per cent on paper this year in his annuity and called to
tell me, "I just know in my heart the market is going to zero, so I want
to
sell everything." more...
IS
IT TIME TO RUN FROM MARKET?
Looking at my old
UPI alumni wire, I noticed an exchange
from a
veteran reporter worried about his money, and a knowledgeable
financial services colleague offering advise. The exchange is
being replicated in coffee shops and brokerages houses around the nation. more...
U.S.
INVESTORS KNOW WHAT GEORGE LACKS
Harry S Truman and Dwight D.
Eisenhower once had it, but Bill Clinton and George W. never did.
John McCain and Bill Bradley, and even Ronald Reagan had one, but Franklin
D. Roosevelt and Al Gore Jr. never did.
Still guessing? more...
YOUR
TURN TO JUDGE HOMELAND SAFETY
Basically the Commander-in-Chief
said, "It's time to keep our
eyes and
ears open to trouble, and to troublemakers, in every neighborhood."
The vermin had hid amidst an unsuspecting population, training in
places such as South Florida, invaded domestic shores and attacked with
vicious vengeance from the sky. more..
HEY
MARTHA! WHO DO YOU TRUST?
We
were listening to the various versions of what Martha
Stewart,
MOS (Mother of Style) did, and when did she do it, and wondered
about lingering questions, on and off of Wall Street, that America
would like answered? First, how come out of all of the companies in the world,
Martha ended up involved in her ImClone, her buddy's stock, in the first place? more.. |
