We cared about Cambridge Analytica because it could have helped elect Trump. We ignored LocationSmart because even the though the company was selling and exposing the real-time GPS coordinates of our phones, it was never clear exactly if or how that data was misused.

This idea, that privacy issues are abstract concepts for most people until they become security or ideological problems, is important to understanding Facebook’s massive breach revealed this week….. CLICK for complete article

Will you be the bug or the windshield? Find out how to bullet-proof your protfolio BEFORE the next financial crisis.

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– Generate solid risk-adjusted returns in rising markets. 

– Integrate options and private assets into your portfolio

– Take advantage of high-growth cyclical sectors

– Protect your capital through the next financial crisis

– Legally minimize taxes before, during, and after retirement

– Determine the right mix of moderate and speculative investments

Straight Talk for Retirement Event from MoneyTalks on Vimeo.

Will you be the bug or the windshield? Find out how to bullet-proof your protfolio BEFORE the next financial crisis.

FREE for MoneyTalks listeners – CLICK HERE to REGISTER – Calgary, Red Deer and Edmonton dates available

– Generate solid risk-adjusted returns in rising markets. 

– Integrate options and private assets into your portfolio

– Take advantage of high-growth cyclical sectors

– Protect your capital through the next financial crisis

– Legally minimize taxes before, during, and after retirement

– Determine the right mix of moderate and speculative investments

Straight Talk for Retirement Event from MoneyTalks on Vimeo.

The excuses to buy stocks – no matter what headline tape bomb explodes – grow longer and more desperate as asset-gatherers and commission-takers know the end is nigh (and judging by the level of insider-selling, so do C-level execs). Of course, to the onlookers, the record-breaking stock markets provide just the ‘price’ evidence that everything must be awesome (right?), but as former fund manager and FX trader Richard Breslow points out, “there’s danger in knowing price, but not value.”  CLICK for complete article

The excuses to buy stocks – no matter what headline tape bomb explodes – grow longer and more desperate as asset-gatherers and commission-takers know the end is nigh (and judging by the level of insider-selling, so do C-level execs). Of course, to the onlookers, the record-breaking stock markets provide just the ‘price’ evidence that everything must be awesome (right?), but as former fund manager and FX trader Richard Breslow points out, “there’s danger in knowing price, but not value.”  CLICK for complete article