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  LISTEN TO THE DECEMBER 2007 SHOW WHEN KEN CALLED THE BEAR MARKET OF 2008 AND WHY IT IS TIME TO SELL
There is a 60% chance of recession. There is a bear market coming. Gas will go to $4 a gallon. It is time to take profits and sell all stocks
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  LISTEN TO THE JUNE 2009 SHOW WHERE KEN DISCUSSES WHY IT IS TIME TO BUY
After having been out of the market for almost 18 months, Ken discusses his Fearless Forecast.
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  February 18, 2012
Topics covered: (1) What If Israel/U.S. Attacks Iran? (2) 10 Things That Will Help You Live Longer (3) Services We Offer (4) Buy Hold Myth: What If You Miss Both Best And Worst Days? (5) Estate Tip: 3 Tests To Determine If Life Insurance Becomes Taxable
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  February 11, 2012
Topics covered: (1) Greece & The Euro Zone. Why The Trade Deficit Is Good? (2) One Of Your Worst Enemies: Look In The Mirror (3) Required Minimum Distributions When You Turn 70 1/2 (4) Buy Hold Myth: Don't Miss The Best Trading Days . But What If You Missed The Worst? (5) Estate Tip: Power of Attorney Documents
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  February 04, 2012
Topics covered: (1) Looks Like Our Buy Signal May Be Correct (2) If President Obama Is Re-Elected, Is It Good Or Bad? (3) How To Protect Yourself From Identity Theft (4) Buy Hold Myth: 5 Years Before And 5 Years After Retirement Are The Most Important Of Your Life (5) Estate Tip: Be Careful, Your Will Is Not Enough!
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  January 27, 2012
Topics covered: (1) Things Are Bad, But That's Good! (2) How To Calculate Your Magic Number (3) What Is The Greatest Financial Risk To Retirees? (4) Buy Hold Myth: It's Ok To Lose Money Because It Will Come Back (5) Estate Tip: How You May Get A Discount On Your Taxes
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  January 21, 2012
Topics covered: (1) Why Ken Thinks This Is A Good Time To Buy (2) How To Get Income For Life (3) How To Pay For Nursing Home And Assisted Living Expenses (4) Buy Hold Myth: Peace Of Mind Counts Too! (5) Estate Tip: How To Pass On Up To $10 Million Tax Free
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  January 15, 2012
Topics covered: (1) ECB Bails Out Euro. Dow 14,000 Here We Come! (2) 15 Things You Need To Know For Retirement (3) What Is Protected From Lawsuit In Texas? (4) Buy Hold Myth: Our Strategy Was Wrong In 2010, So What? (5) Estate Tip: Q-Tip Trust For Your Spouse
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  January 6, 2012
Topics covered: (1) 2011 Recap (2) Fearless Forecast 2012! (3) What Could Be The Best Invesment In 2012? (4) Buy Hold Myth:"I Am Where I Was In 2000!" (5) Estate Tip: Living Trust - Is It Good Or Not?
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  December 31, 2011
Topics covered: (1) New Year Resolution: Retirement Checklist (2) How To Spot A Fake Financial Adviser (3) 4 Investment Risks You Need To Watch Out For (4) Buy Hold Myth: You Haven't Lost Any Money Unless You Sell (5) Estate Tip: Passing On Your Home
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  December 24, 2011
Topics covered: (1) 3 Worst Enemies To Your Financial Well Being: Bear Market, Taxes, Inflation (2) Buy Hold Myth: Keep Buying As The Market Goes Down (3) How Taxes & Inflation Can Take Away 98% Of Your Returns (4) Reverse Mortgage: Is It For You? (5) Fifth segment title
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  December 17, 2011
Topics covered: (1) Are We Going Into Stocks Or Bonds? (2) Are We Going Into Stocks Or Bonds? Part 2 (3) Why Inflation Could Be Our Biggest Problem (4) Buy Hold Myth: Everyone Lost Money, Not Just You! (5) Estate Tip: Dynasty Trust
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  December 10, 2011
Topics covered: (1) Germany vs. Southern Europe (2) Order For Taking Income From Investments (3) The Magic Number (4) Buy Hold Myth: The Market Always Comes Back (5) What To Do If You Win $254 Million
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  December 3, 2011
Topics covered: (1) So, Are We Going In? (2) 6 Ways To Protect From Lawsuits (3) Retiree Lessons Learned From My Clients (4) Buy Hold Myth: If You Miss The 20 Best Days, Your Return Will Suffer (5) Estate Tip: How You May Reduce Estate Taxes With An FLP
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  November 25, 2011
Topics Discussed: (1) Germany Says NO. Now what? (2) 5 kinds of risk you face when you invest (3) Should you create a budget? (4) Buy Hold Myth: A hurricane is coming! I should not get out of the way? (5) Estate Tip- Joe Paterno's estate plan
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  November 19, 2011
Topics covered: (1) Which way will the Market go? (2) The Top 10 Investor Mistakes (3) Job #1: Don't Lose Mass Quantities (4) Which Investor Is Better: The One Who Made $100,000 Or The One Who Made $0? (5) Estate Tip: Revocable Trust vs. Irrevocable Trust
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  November 12, 2011
Topics Covered: (1) Italy: The $2.4 Trillion problem (2) 10 questions of retirees (3) Why does a stock go down on good news? (4) Buy Hold Myth: Dangers of Market timing (5) Estate Tip: Should you have an IRA for each beneficiary?
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  November 4, 2011
Topics Covered: (1) Europe! Europe! Europe! The never ending story (2) 9 Demands on your $ when you retire (3) Email Scams to watch out for (4) Buy Hold Myth: Buy a diversified portfolio, rebalance it & you are done (5) Estate Tip: When is a Living Trust a good idea?
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  October 29, 2011
Topics covered: (1) Europe Solved! Time To Buy? (2) How To Fight Inflation (3) The Coming Tax Onslaught (4) Buy Hold Myth: If You Sell You Will Underperform (5) Estate Tip: A Trust To Protect Your Spouse
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  October 22, 2011
Topics Discussed: (1) The 800 Pound Gorilla (2) Safe Investments That Are Not Safe: Gold, L.T. Treasuries (3) As A Financial Advisor, My Job Is Not To Make The Most Money Possible! (4) Buy Hold Myth: You Haven’t Lost Any Money Unless You Sell!! (5) Estate Tip: Protecting Life Income With Life Insurance
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  October 15, 2011
Topics Discussed: (1) A tale of two continents (2) How to increase your chances of buying high and selling low (3) Website stats (4) Buy Hold Myth: Don't sell, you will miss the rebound! (5) Estate Tip: When should you review or update your estate plan?
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  October 8, 2011
Topics covered: (1) Lessons From My Mom (2) Buy Hold Myth: If Greece Goes Down... (3) How To Get An Income For Life (4) Which Pension Choice Should I Make? (5) Trusts For Grandchildren
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  October 1, 2011
Topics covered: (1) Is it safe to be in the Market? (2) 7% guaranteed & then 5% for life: Too good to be true? (3) How to get money out of an Annuity (4) Top 5 Bear Markets: Can you afford the risk? (5) Should you name a trust the beneficiary of your retirement plan?
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  September 24, 2011
Topics Covered: 1) Treating the symptoms, not the disease (2) "Operation Twist" explained (3) Why the plan to tax the rich could tax YOU! (4) Buy Hold Myth: Buy a diversified portfolio of quality investments & you are done! (5) Estate Tip: How to pass on to your grandchildren tax free
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  September 17, 2011
Topics covered: (1) Rally Into Bear: "The Yo-Yo On The Escalator" (2) Rally Into Bear: "The Yo-Yo On The Escalator" – Continued (3) How Much Money Do I Need To Retire With? (4) Buy Hold Myth: You CannotTime The Market & If you Are Wrong, You Will Underperform (5) Estate Tip: 5 Beneficiary Rules
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  September 10, 2011
Topics covered: (1) Are We In Recession? (2) How Do Different Bonds Behave? (3) Donate To Boys And Girls Club And We Will Triple It!! (4) Buy Hold Myth: Don't Sell Because It Could Go Back Up And You Will Miss The Rally!! (5) Estate Tip: How To Maximize A Gift To Charity
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  September 3, 2011
Topics covered: (1) Is This Y2K All Over Again? (2) Why Ken Thinks P/E Ratios Are Irrelevant (3) Buy Hold Myth: Don't Be The Fool Who Sold At The Bottom (4) How To Choose A Very Good Financial Planner (5) What Is The Difference Between Tenants In Common And Joint Tenants With Right Of Survivorship?
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  August 19, 2011
Topics covered: (1) Why Ken thinks it is better for his clients to be out of stocks (2) The European shell game (3) Is it too late to sell? (4) Buy and Hold guys are at it again!! (5) How to pay for college
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  August 13, 2011 Part 1
Topics Covered: (1) Fearless Forecast revisited (2) "My Adviser never calls me, I have to call them!" (3) Why did the market go up when Bernanke gave bad news? (4) Is Zero my enemy? (5) Potentially reduce taxes and protect from lawsuits?
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  Part 2: Could this be the onset of the next Great Depression?
Topics covered: (1) Could this be the onset of the next great depression? (2) Is Gold the answer? (3) Are Indexed Annuities the answer? (4) What to do to help protect against the worst (5) Why does Ken think that there is the potential for another depression?
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  August 6, 2011
Topics covered: (1) Financial Armageddon (2) Why Ken advised his clients to exit the market (3) How to sell more than once a year in a 529 plan (4) Will the US retain its Reserve Currency status? (5) With the downgrade, could we see Dow 5000?
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  July 30, 2011
Topics covered: (1) Why Ken thinks a debt ceiling deal will be done part 1 (2) Why Ken thinks a debt ceiling deal will be done part 2 (3) Why a US downgrade could be good for Treasuries (4) Buy Hold Myth: If you miss the best 20 trading days of the last 20 years... (5) Estate Tax law opportunities for 2011 and 2012
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  July 23, 2011
Topics covered: (1) What are the consequences of no Debt Ceiling deal? (2) What to do after the deal is done? (3) How much should I keep in an emergency fund? (4) Too scared to invest your cash? (5) Should I title my accounts Tenants In Common or Joint Tenants With Rights Of survivorship?
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  July 15, 2011
Topics covered: (1) The Debt Ceiling economic time bomb (2) Are unemployment and the market correlated? (3) Should your advisor eat his own cooking? (4) What is Money Matters' strategy if there is no Debt Ceiling agreement? (5) Why is updating your beneficiary designations so important?
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  July 9, 2011
Topics covered: (1) Could the Debt Ceiling debate derail our economy? (2) When should you take your Social Security benefits? (3) Are bonds still part of a well diversified portfolio? (4) You haven't lost any money unless you sell. WHAT?? (5) How to leave a tax free inheritance
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  July 2, 2011
Topics covered: (1) Fearless Forecast for second half of 2011 (2) Ken in Greece during riots! (3) Will the US become Greece? (4) Myth: If you sell you won't know when to buy (5) Passing on your home to heirs
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  June 25, 2011
Topics covered (1) Inflating our way out of debt (2) How much risk should I take with my investments? (3) How long should I keep my financial records? (4) Is a Reverse Mortgage right for me? (5) Can I protect myself from lawsuits AND reduce taxes?
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  June 18, 2011
Topics covered: (1) The end of QE2: Good or bad? (2) Why do bonds go down when interest rates go up? (3) The worst fincancial plan ever! (4) Top 10 Stock myths (part 2) (5) When can a Safety Deposit box be bad?
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  June 11, 2011
Topics covered: (1) Is the Economy down for the count? NO!! (2) The importance of buy hold and SELL! (3) Should I have all my investments with one advisor? (4) Top 10 Stock myths (part 1) (5) Life Insurance is taxable?
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  June 4, 2011
Topics Covered: (1) Dow 13,000! (2) Diversification: How many categories should I have? (3) How much should I withdraw from my investments? (4) I sold at the bottom and then missed the rise! (5) Trust for my spouse
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