The new year had barely begun when Carl called to sit down with me and Warren to discuss his financial goals for 2014. I have

On December 25th the new Martin Scorsese film, The Wolf of Wall Street, opened nationwide. The film depicts Jordan Belfort and his “boiler room” operation

The best investment I have made was my education. (Thanks, Mom and Dad, for your sacrifice.) However, the cost of education continues to skyrocket. Furthermore,

For the record, I have never tweeted on Twitter. I am too longwinded for such a simple communication platform. Most of my students tweet and,

Although it was 7:30 Saturday morning, my Texas Lutheran University students were ready to go. I appreciated their discipline. We were headed to Austin for

As I walked my students through the political wrangling of the debt ceiling, I explained the implications of our government not being able to fund

If you Google “Michael Shearn” you won’t find much on the money manager. And yet his research prowess commands an audience with the likes of

This week, the press has run every story imaginable recounting the financial implosion that began five years ago with the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy. However, as

Although the coolness of fall was absent, there was hope as the beginning of the college football season was upon us. To celebrate, Paul, a

For many of us in Texas, Detroit’s half century long implosion, and subsequent bankruptcy, seems a million miles away. It is hard to fathom how,

Occasionally, I come home to a pile of shopping bags stacked like cordwood. From behind the mountainous purchases my beloved bride asks me if I

As I stared at my computer assessing the gyrations of the financial markets, my phone rang. It was Samantha, one of my students at Texas