Guzzo The Contrarian

Pay Off Debt Or Invest?

Guzzo — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:16:20 +0000

Morningstar’s Christine Benz offers guidelines for prioritizing investment savings with paying down mortgage, credit card, and student loan debt. Always good advice.

SIGTARP Transparencies

Guzzo — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:34:23 +0000

SIGTARP is the acronym used to easily identify the office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program. SIGTARP was created by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (EESA), and is headed by Neil M. Barofsky, the Special Inspector General appointed by President George Bush, and confirmed by the Senate, just before [...]

I’m Still Here

Guzzo — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:31:50 +0000

I know, I haven’t posted in a while. Truthfully, I don’t have anything to say. Maybe I’m having blogger’s block or maybe I just can’t find anything worthwhile to talk about. Yes, Mr. Opinionated is at a loss for words. Whaddya gonna do? Investing takes a lot of patience, but blogging takes of lot of action. [...]

Good News On The Regulatory Front

Guzzo — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:34:35 +0000

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has been given the go ahead from the SEC to make it’s BrokerCheck service records of final regulatory actions against brokers permanently available to the public. Previously, a broker’s record generally becomes unavailable to the public two years after he or she leaves the securities industry and is therefore no [...]

Janet Yellen Visits Phoenix

Guzzo — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:22:56 +0000

According to Catherine Reagor’s Real Estate and Growth Blog, Dr. Janet L. Yellen, economist, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco will be in Phoenix to talk about Arizona’s economy next week. One of twelve districts banks represented in the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco provides wholesale [...]

Outsmarting Investment Fraud

Guzzo — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:58:36 +0000

After watching FRONTLINE’S Video “The Warning” which exposed rampant fraud at the topmost level in this country, I’m almost too discouraged to report information that may help prevent less significant fraud. It’s almost like we’re doomed to failure at keeping the crooks from stealing our savings. But, what the hell. If it’ll save an honest American [...]