Anne Barnhardt was the CEO of a money manager who was forced to shut down her firm in the wake of the MF Global collapse. She is calling for a boycott of the financial markets and JP Morgan (JPM) specifically. To listen to her blistering attack in full in an interview with by Buddy, Peter [...]

I’ll never forgot when my friend, Don Kagin, one of the world’s top dealers in rare coins, walked into the gym one day and announced that he made $1 million that morning.  I enquired “How is that, pray tell?” He told me that he was an investor and technical consultant to a venture hoping to [...]

I have always believed that if you don’t have a sense of humor, then you better get the hell out of this business. Below is a link to a YouTube video entitled “All I Want To Do is Retire” which covers the decline of the brokerage industry over the last 20 years. The video is [...]

“America’s colleges and universities churn out lots of liberal arts graduates….By and large, the economy doesn’t need all these generals. We’re not training enough scientists and engineers. The high schools used to churn out enough people with technical skills in the fifties and sixties, but not so today. It’s cheaper just to prepare everyone to [...]