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  • A Stock on Which You Can Bank

    Adversity is part of our business heritage. Think of how your ancestors lived. Go back to the days of the World Wars. Imagine raising children during the Great Depression. Reflect on the ...

  • Business Lessons from Mobile Wars

    2007 was not a uniformly bad year for all business. Banks will like to banish the nightmares. Most iPhone users and its legendary maker will remember the last calendar year forever.

  • The Business of Tibet

    The world has three new poles. Celebrity film makers, young rebels of assorted genres, and descendants of a band of refugees from China, revere the Dalai Lama. The China establishment is in ...

  • Stock Investment Lessons from the Surge

    More Marines can do the trick. That applies to bombs and coffins. Why should stock investment be any different? Does your portfolio shave some market capitalization everyday? Is the ...

  • Shuffle Your Stocks in the Services Deck

    We told you so. It is bad manners, but search engines will give you points for telling casual browsers what website loyalty can do for them.

  • Inflation Facts and Fiction

    The figures you read and hear may sound wrong. Hyper inflation for one person may not concern the wealthy. An official figure is like a stock market index. An average can mislead. The bills ...

  • The Liquidity Imperative for Financial Planning Today

    Cash is always king of the financial planning world. Its dominance as a priority has been heightened of late. Nothing can be as cramping as losing liquidity in a volatile and inflationary ...

  • A Delicious Stock on the NYSE Menu

    โ€œWrite something cheerful for a changeโ€. This is a classic, coming as it did from our editor. Anyway, who can argue with the hand that signs checks? We have been fishing around for some fun ...

  • Fight or Flight Options for the Stock Market Challenge

    A six-month break from the stock market has become a popular prescription. Some people say that we should do nothing. The nightmare has to end. Just wait until everyone wakes up. Others ...

  • Count on the Fed for This Stock

    Can we take the de Bono way further? We are stimulated by the thinking methods of this celebrated author. See our earlier publication on Water Logic for financial planning: The Stock Market ...

  • Financial Planning for the Next Generation of Your Family

    It is the most enduring feature of North American financial planning. The entire continent has seen liberal inward migration for the last 500 years. Even Aleutians have originally come ...

  • Myriad Ways for You to Make Money from New Internet Marketing

    Controversy has erupted over stock price trends of major Internet search engines. Some surveys show that the โ€˜pay per clickโ€™ fashion may be on the decline. Influential stock market quarters ...