The road to wealth - and the route chosen to pass it on to succeeding generations – is deeply personal. Beneath the surface of wealth ownership, management, governance, and...
Michael C. Stalker
Municipal Bonds Play Foil to State Budget Crisis
MCS Financial Advisors has purchsed for its clients taxable and tax-exempt bonds from a diverse array of California municipalities....
Michael C. Stalker
THE RECENT STOCK market recovery has put many investors back into sleep mode when it comes to the risks they face. Many investors are like the frog in the familiar story – a frog...
Michael C. Stalker
Com-pen-sa-tion noun 1: payment 2: an attempt to make up for an injury, loss, or imbalanceTHERE ARE TWO ASPECTS of the word compensate that make things complicated in family...
Michael C. Stalker
It is a challenging season. One farmer reaps the harvest of a successful crop while his neighbor’s crop fails. The successful farmer feels his neighbor’s pain; he knows he shares...
Michael C. Stalker
Those who have been with me for decades have patiently listened to or read a recurring theme: Contrary to what Wall Street firms repeat ad nauseam, long-term investing in risky assets...
Michael C. Stalker
In my fall 2007 newsletter article titled “Moving to Higher Ground,” I wrote, “A major earthquake, in the form of the sub-prime mortgage crisis, has unleashed a tsunami that will...
Michael C. Stalker
For many years, MCS Financial Advisors has counseled clients that the conventional wisdom regarding the superiority of stock investing is a half truth promoted by the financial...
Michael C. Stalker
Picture a vehicle careening around a hairpin turn on a steep mountain road, two wheels off the ground. Most Americans and Congress are in the trunk of this vehicle. Paulson and...
Michael C. Stalker
Isn’t this all one big crisis? In a word, yes. But the devil is in the detail, and so is understanding. In this article, I propose that behind all these crises is the crisis of...
Michael C. Stalker