I continue to be flabbergasted at the complete disregard of risk in the financial services industry. What's truly ironic is that risk management is one of the fundamental pillars - at least it's supposed to be for a bank to be healthy.

I never thought we'd see the day where a broad-based appeal for financial executives to get back to something so basic as risk management (it's kinda like what

I've been watching the headlines over the past month about the unprecedented financial crisis - as am sure you have too.

 Here's the link to an excellent summary of what this crisis is and isn't: Mort Zuckerman's (Huffington Post) article, Anatomy of the Financial Crisis. I encourage you to read it and post your comments.

"Is now a good time to invest?"

"Should I sell everything and buy CDs?"

"What should I do to protect my retirement?"

I'm getting these kind of questions from my clients and colleagues. They are rightfully concerned.

As I've been saying for a while now, market downs are to be expected. In fact, with a thoughtful investment strategy, market downs provide buying opportunities. But don't lunge into the

While we’re all riding out the bumpiness in the market (I know, you're probably getting sea sick from the most recent declines), it’s important that you have a strong remedy for feelings of panic that often come about when you see your investments performance falling.

As you discovered in part 1, bumpiness—also called volatility—is part of what you sign up for when investing in the market.

One key

It's officially launch time! The Basic 10 Minute Investing System includes:

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Here's some email correspondence between Errold F. Moody and me. For those of you who are not yet familiar with Errold, he's a financial planner, investment advisor, expert witness, an authentic advocate of investors and someone whom I think highly of. He's written a very good book, "No Nonsense Finance." I've recently asked him to conduct a review of my upcoming manual, 10 Minute Investment