The video below is making its rounds at the Palm Beach headquarters. It contains every entrepreneurial business cliché you’ve ever heard… delivered with perfection. Mark suggested I share it with all Palm Beach Daily readers. If you’ve got three minutes to spare, start your day off with a laugh…
From Teeka Tiwari, editor, Mega Trends Investing: For goodness’ sake, stay out of the bond market. It’s a ticking time bomb… Banks were once the biggest buyers and sellers of bonds. But that all changed with the Dodd-Frank Act—the big, sweeping legislation that came out after the financial crisis. It increased the capital requirements of […]
From Tom Dyson, publisher, Palm Beach Research Group: It’s the world’s most abundant energy resource. At current rates of consumption, there’s enough of it to last for at least 142 years. In contrast, there’s only enough proven oil and gas to last around 60 years (at current rates). I’m talking about coal. There are around […]
From Mark Ford, editor, Creating Wealth: There is no shortage of billionaires today. In 1985, there were fewer than 20 of them. Today, there are more than 1,800. As many as 536 of them are American. That’s nothing to sneeze at. Nor is their collective net worth of around $2.5 trillion. At the moment, the […]
Editor’s Note: We’ve received a lot of reader feedback over Mark’s essays on time management. One subscriber wrote to remind us how balancing work and family is a lot harder than Mark admits. Her letter inspired discussion across our office. Both men and women weighed in on what it means to live a balanced life. […]
From Dan Ferris, editor, Extreme Value: If you search “investing” in Amazon’s book department, you’ll get over 70,000 results. But, here’s what Amazon—and almost everyone else—won’t tell you about your search… Over 99% of the investing books out there aren’t worth the time it takes to read them. Some books are just magazine articles that […]
Editor’s Note: Your editor is on a special assignment. So today, we bring you classic advice from Tom on how to safeguard your wealth. Regular Daily readers know PBRG recommends gold as a key part of everyone’s asset allocation mix. But we don’t always talk about the best ways to protect your gold… Tom does […]