August 9, 2011
U.S. unemployment is stuck above 9 percent and economic growth is stalled, with gross domestic product rising less than 1 percent in 2011. Now Standard & Poor’s has downgraded the U.S. credit rating and markets all over the world seemed to react with knee-jerk panic. Many investors are worried and wondering, is now the
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December 27, 2010
Last month in the New York Times, I read an interesting article about an ex-Wall Street bond salesman’s perspective on investing. Gordon Murray brings to light something I would agree with: most people on Wall Street know very little about personal investing. In my own experience as an ex-derivatives trader, I admit that I
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February 18, 2010
Yes, You Can Still Retire Comfortably, by Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth
Review by Mike McCann, CFP, AIF
Racing toward retirement? You don’t have to out run the bear.
There’s an old joke about two hikers who encounter a man-eating Grizzly bear deep in the forest. The bear catches sight of the men from
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