I consider non-traded REITs or nREITS to be part of the group of investments that are just absolute murderholes for clients – they pay the brokers so much that they cannot possibly work out (and they rarely do wihout all kinds of aggravation and additional costs). Further, I have yet to hear a single credible…

LOL, I’m actually fairly tame with my opinions publicly – one day I’ll tell you how I really feel. My style of blogging has always been to obey one rule – remain compliant with industry regulations. Outside of that, I never even thought about presenting myself in an specific way that was “good for my…

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Some interesting investment flows data from Michael Hartnett and his Global Equity Strategy team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch… YTD inflows of $53bn to equities & $80bn to bonds consistent with modest positive equity (2.5%) and bond (3.8%) returns YTD Equity Flows $6.0bn inflows to US equity funds (all inflows via ETF’s – IWM…

via Bloomberg: Jordan Belfort, whose memoir “The Wolf of Wall Street” was turned into a film by Martin Scorsese, expects to earn more this year than he made at his peak as a stockbroker, allowing him to repay the victims of his fraud. “I’ll make this year more than I ever made in my best year as…

Here’s me and Tess Vigeland discussing my new book, Clash of the Financial Pundits, on NPR’s All Things Considered this weekend… Full interview transcript at the link below: In ‘Clash Of The Financial Pundits,’ Clarity For The Investor? (NPR) Check out the book on Amazon here: Clash of the Financial Pundits (Amazon)

Maybe this is just a total coincidence. I don’t know, you be the judge… Here’s my tweet a couple of days ago… Beyoncé breaks her silence on elevator incident: “Jay had a bug on him.” — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) May 15, 2014 and here is Saturday Night Live’s cold open from last night…   Fine,…