Who needs sugar when you’ve gotten back your swagger?

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…

Here’s a throwback post from my old bomb-throwing days, hope you like it… *** Hi, I’m Josh Brown.  You might know me from such shows as the Fast Money Halftime Report and Felix TV… A recent disciplinary action by Finra has sent a warning shot across the bow at stockbrokers who sell private placements to customers without having…

If you don’t feel like a Muppet for buying a business development corporation private placement, you should – because there is most definitely a hand up your ass. It is astounding to me, after all we’ve been through, that there are still enough gullible people with investable assets left to support this kind of “product”….

Wow. I can’t even believe that a year has passed since my book, Backstage Wall Street, first hit Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other fine stores. I began writing it in the spring of 2011, edited it with Stephanie Frerich and the amazing staff at McGraw-Hill throughout the year and then in March of 2012…

What are we doing here?

Here’s the final list of chapters:

Because I’m in the business of helping people, I thought I’d offer up my own 3-step guide for stockbrokers when conducting due diligence on private placements: