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Shopping for a broker are you? Well here are some things to keep in mind when shopping. Get the right person and you will enjoy the relationship. Get the wrong person and you may find your account blowing up at the hands of a newbie or a seasoned scoundrel. Good Luck and Happy Investing

Back in the day, you had to be an investment professional to understand anything in a prospectus beyond the name of the security. Thankfully things have changed. Happy Reading

Here is a closer look at two places to put your cash until the economic turmoil is a bit less cloudy. Both seem the same at the surface, but there are key differences. Happy Investing

President Obama today declared he was going to re-appoint Ben Bernanke chairman of the Fed. It's a good move, notwithstanding the usual critics who not only want Bernanke gone, but the whole Fed abolished.

I bought a car this weekend using the cash for clunkers program. I got $4,500 off a new car. That's not bad. It will take an awful lot of cash in a 2.5% APY savings account to equal that amount. There was a lot of aggravation though.

Will the safest bonds in the world be defaulted on? Take a look.

Pick-a-payments, Liar Loans, Debt consolidations, are they really that good a deal. Maybe you should take a closer look. Happy Reading

this article will go over some little known facts about your credit and ways some lenders or prospective employers view your report. Happy Investing

The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee met today and described an economy that had bottomed but that will be slow to recover.

Here is a short piece on Bankruptcy and the effects on your credit. Rather than focus on credit score, take a look and see what your future lender and broker thinks of when he sees a bankruptcy on your report. A recent BK does not mean you won't get your loan. Happy Reading, Keith

Word is circulating that in the midst of one of the largest financial catastrophes in global history, Goldman Sachs is getting ready to report record profits and pay out hefty bonuses to its employees. You might be tempted to say that Goldman deserves it; they did after all navigate the financial crisis and come out relatively unscathed. Except that’s not really the case.

Welcome to my life. This series loosly chronicles my beginning as a stockbroker in the mid 1990's. Had I not been there I would not have believed what went on behind closed doors of some of Wall Street's largest firms. This story is not unique, it happened everywhere, but it is my story with my own unique and crazy perspective. Happy Reading Keith A Campbell

Think the auction rate security saga is over? Not. Today, TD Ameritrade agreed to pay $465 million to its customers to reimburse them for losses taken in the ARS default mess.

Prosper, a PtoP lender that was forced to stop operations 9 months ago by the SEC, finally received approval to begin operations again. The real question though is about the viability of PtoP lending and whether it makes sense from a borrower or a lender perspective.

This perma-bear, who has been right much more than he has been wrong over the last several years, says that the stock market will go 20-30% below the March lows. He also says that holding cash is a bad strategy.