Hey everybody exposed to some form of media of the Financial Infotainment Industrial Complex: there’s just a short time left until the April 15 deadline to contribute to your tax advantaged IRA for the previous tax year.  Which would be impossible not to know, at this point. Oh, the humble, the homely IRA – is

In honor of the 4.5 years since Warren Buffett showed us all how its done, in the midst of the near-implosion of the financial universe, and in light of the announcement today about how he continues to reap the benefits of his investments, an oldy but goody, “If.” If you can keep your head when

  Over the weekend the European Union agreed to a 10 Billion euro bailout of member country Cyprus’ banking sector, but imposed as a condition of the bailout a 9.9% tax on all bank deposits above 100K Euros.[1] On its face and in the abstract, this proposal is a horrible way to bail out a

Please see New Highs in the Dow Part I – Indifference and Inevitability And New Highs in the Dow Part II – What’s going to happen? ——————————————— First, if you’re actually an investor[1]  in public securities[2], take a moment to be sad about these past two weeks and all the new highs hit in the