Our Culture of Lying, Deutsche Bank Style

For several years now I have decried the slow slip sliding away of ethics in American culture.  At its core, capitalism relies upon trust on the part of both buyer and seller.  Sans trust the transaction either doesn’t happen, or the price of the transaction is...

Investing Lessons From Da Vinci and Edison

As I discuss in my book The Intuitive Investor: A Radical Guide for Manifesting Wealth in my almost two decades as a successful investor I have discovered that the most important investing skill is: understanding information.  This is because information is the basis...

European Central Bank Raises Interest Rates

Europe’s Central Bank – the equivalent of the U.S. Federal Reserve – announced that it was raising interest rates from 1.0% to 1.25%.  This is the first rise in interest rates by the ECB since July 2008.   Analysis: For me, this is a very clear...