Tag: Wall Street Journal

Language Fail in the Land of Financial Planners: The Smooshing Together of Financial Planning and Investment Advising

Hey kids! The FP50IBD for 2014 is out, and it’s a real humdinger! What’s that you say? You’re wondering what that nasty looking little squirt and a half of letters and numbers all strung together in that first paragraph means, are ya? Please allow me to introduce . . . […]

The Indefatigable March of the Asset Gatherers — The Gallop Home of the Bad Horses

There’s been much talk lately of banks doing away with “free checking.” The banks, the thinking goes, as a direct result of some of the new banking federal regulations stemming from The Great Recession, no longer have the un-checked ability to charge $35 and up as “insufficient funds” penalties (also […]