In today’s unforgiving credit climate and economic downturn, there are fewer and fewer ways to gain capital. Consumers and small business owners in need to relatively quick, short-term cash are looking to alternative avenues outside traditional financing channels. Borro, a leading luxury asset lender, gained instantaneous population among small business owners, who make up over…

My friend James Osborne and I go deep on the biggest topics in the investment business today – passive versus active, the rise of liquid alternative funds, investor behavior and more. This is me at my most honest in a forum where I can say what I really want to say. I hope you enjoy it…

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The good news is that Main Street has now gained a toehold in the new national pastime, throwing money at software programmers as they seek to disrupt every industry under the sun and roll out essential new services we can’t imagine living without (It’s like Uber, but for twisting the cap back on your Poland…

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Which should I allocate to? a) the parabolic biotech bubble b) an illiquid startup c) negative-interest sovereign bonds Thanks — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) March 23, 2015

Not that presidents ought to get as much credit or blame as they do…

I’ve been writing about this issue for seven years now and I always knew that this moment would come.