New Year’s is a time of resolutions and new beginnings… but according to FranklinCovey, 35% of us will break these resolutions before January is out. Only 23% of all people who make resolutions will accomplish their goal in the new year. If you’re tired of being a habitual “resolution breaker,” listen to the audio clip […]
Editor’s note: In this morning’s Daily we shared one of Tom’s favorite books. It’s called Crisis Investing for the Rest of the ’90s, by Doug Casey. And it was trading on Amazon for $0.01. Early actors snatched up copies for a penny. With over 100,000 free and paid subscribers, Palm Beach Daily readers quickly extinguished […]
It costs one cent at Amazon.com. But it’s the most valuable book they sell. It was published in 1993. But it’s as relevant as any current book today. I discovered it during the financial crisis in 2008. As the stock market collapsed and the banks failed, I’d been staying up all night trading the markets […]
“That was amazing. How did you do that?” I have to pat my crew on the back. While most investors had a stressful October 2014, the readers of the newsletters I publish were able to relax. Take for example the performance of The Palm Beach Letter, edited by Chief Analyst Grant Wasylik. As Grant noted […]
As Retirement Insider editor Bob Irish says, the time to get your end-of-life plans in order is now—long before you think the end is nigh. You may not have the energy or ability later. The good news is it really isn’t that hard. In this month’s Retirement Insider, Bob shows you just how easy it […]
From Tim Mittelstaedt, editor-in-chief, Palm Beach Research Group: What if there were a better, easier, smoother way to borrow money than going to a bank or using your car as collateral? Dividend-paying whole life insurance policies—which we at the PBRG call “Income for Life”—come with guaranteed loan provisions. This means that the insurance company has […]
Automobiles are causing the biggest boom in subprime lending since the 2008 financial crisis… The New York Times reports “subprime” lending—loans made to individuals with higher risk of defaulting on their repayment—now accounts for almost one-third of all car purchases. Even worse, subprime lending’s fastest growth is in “title loans”—short-term loans that use cars as […]