When President Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met in the White House yesterday, it was a study in contrasts.

Hope springs eternal. That's how to best describe the situation in Central Europe and the Baltic Republics this year following a crash in 2008.

Since the markets crashed in 2000, American investors have generally abandoned the explosive prospects of tech startups in favor of more concrete alternatives.

How many felonies have you committed today? If you're like most Americans, you probably violate federal or state law several times each day, without even knowing it.

The front pages were busy last week with President Obama's trip to Asia.

A broad net of 15 coral islands in the central heart of the South Pacific, the Cook Islands are spread over 850,000 square miles, southwest of Tahiti and due south of Hawaii.

From a speculator's perspective, the total return potential now in silver is probably greater than gold.

Thinking about getting a tattoo? If you are, better not pay cash!

After shuffling off into bankruptcy, the biggest name in small business finance - CIT - has announced a larger-than-expected third quarter loss of over a billion dollars.

If small stocks led the recovery then it's fair to assume they will lead the next decline.

My recent A-Letter describing how easy it is to expatriate really hit a chord.

People are becoming increasingly skeptical of the stock market rally.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell." -Frank Borman

It's not often that I can report news that's actually favorable to financial privacy.

The first thing we do," says Dick the Butcher, a character in Shakespeare's Henry VI, part 2 is "kill all the lawyers."

Both congressional leaders and President Obama have suggested that raising tax rates on wealthy Americans will result in a corresponding increase in tax revenues.

Finding a good lawyer is too often a difficult task.

Bulls and bears should both embrace portfolio hedging ahead of the next correction or panic.

During the Offshore Advantage Academy in Los Cabos last week where I spoke, I got a lot of questions about various offshore legal issues from our 330 attendees.

It's time for another installment in my periodic postings on frivolous lawsuits.