I applaud Greg Smith for speaking up for his values and I believe that he is probably trying to shed some light on some of the nastiness that is most certainly present in the financial services industry.  His comments on selling products with no thought in regards to whether or not they are right for...Read More

David Dreman’s book “Contrarian Investment Strategies” was one of the keys to formulating my investment methodology.  In the book and the updated versions that have followed, Dreman outlines extensive statistical analysis pointing to the follies of the Efficient Market Theory.  The statistics demonstrated that stocks with low p/b, p/cf, and p/e tend to outperform over...Read More

Today we had some big news with the Federal Reserve announcing the results of the dramatic stress tests.  As a whole the US banking industry did quite well, which is to be expected considering they have double the capital that they had three years ago. I was somewhat surprised to see Citigroup, which has one...Read More