I have been around the stock market and investing in stocks for over 60 years. I began my career in the investment business as a retail broker in 1970 with Kansas City based H. O. Peet. Peet was acquired in 1978 by Kidder, Peabody. With the merger I moved his business to the institutional ...more

I have been around the stock market and investing in stocks for over 60 years. I began my career in the investment business as a retail broker in 1970 with Kansas City based H. O. Peet. Peet was acquired in 1978 by Kidder, Peabody. With the merger I moved his business to the institutional (wholesale) side of the firm, selling the firm’s equity research and syndicates products to banks, investment advisors, insurance companies and mutual funds. In 1990 I joined St. Louis based A.G. Edwards to help in the development of that firm’s fledgling institutional business.  After several mergers where the name on the door change but not my position I retired from Wells Fargo in 2012. My blog aims to discuss current events, issues that cause significant concern in the market, and offer a sensible perspective versus the twenty-four/seven media, political and punditry cycle and its continuous barrage of fearful headlines.  It’s about the history I experienced that most of today’s investors were either to young to experience or not aware of because their lives and careers were leading them in different directions.less