Today's blog title comes from an article by Bill Bonner of The Daily Reckoning, a commentator I usually enjoy. Bonner is also the author of the prophetic Financial Reckoning Day and the followup F...

Yesterday's column in the paper -- and a similar one in Rob Carrick's column in the ROB -- understandably raised the ire of financial advisors who objected being lumped in with the Madoffs and...

There's a good essay at Kiplinger.com today entitled 7 Lessons from the Meltdown. You can access it directly here.  For this blog, I've borrowed the seven headlines and added my own comme...

Contagion is the title of a book published in January by John Talbott, a recommendation by financial advisor Andy Filipiuk. Filipiuk, of National Bank Financial,  mentioned the book in a Wealthy ...

  Nice phrase isn't it? But I can't take credit for The Discomfort of Diversification. Credit instead Michael Nairne, president of Tacita Capital Inc.. Nairne just sent a short essay wit...

As the Summer of 2009 comes to an end without really starting, there's a flurry of commentary making the case for optimism about the stock market and economy. With stocks up almost 50% from their ...