Ever wonder how you can get shares of a hot IPO – initial stock offering?   Here’s the scoop. When a hot company’s IPO opens to the market,  both institutional and retail investors clamor to get a piece of the pie. Who are investors like you and me?   Wall Street calls...

“No good deed goes unpunished.”  My husband loves to give me this warning all the time.  An unfortunate Waffle House waitress in Alabama and her customer found this out the hard way.  Tonda Lynn Dickerson won $10 Million when a frequent customer gave her the winning lottery...

If you did not plan for the US debt downgrade by Standards and Poors (S&P) two to three weeks ago, then it’s already too late.   Any actions that you take now, especially out of fear or panic, may make your situation worse.   The market already reacted to it with almost 10% loss...

Joshua Partlow from the Washington Post reported that the half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Ahmed Wali Karzai, was assassinated at his home by his own guard.  He was considered to be the most powerful politician in Southern Afghanistan. The power vacuum will cause instability in...

It sounds like the plot of a movie.   Three moms with kids at the Neil Armstrong Elementary School in Diamond Bar, CA used their PTA membership to con $14 Million dollars from other moms.   Unfortunately, it is all true. The victims showed the classic personal behaviors that we discussed...