SHIRLEY MUELLER, MD

Many different groups feel they are being targeted by our president's plan to increase taxes and decrease deductions and don't like it, including retirees who make a lot of income from dividends and capital gains.

Though the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum is a subway and bus ride away from Manhattan, the trouble is well worth it to see the Greek revival interiors housed in the 1836 stone manor.

Older folks caught in a scam may not be in the early stages of dementia, simply lonely or experiencing "normal aging." Instead, a unique brain defect may explain the vulnerability.

The reason that investors in general didn't do so well in hedge funds was largely due to the fees. It's better to manage a hedge fund than invest in one.

Although we think it's impossible, could the U.S. become a third-world country? The nation has fallen victim to slow growth, high unemployment, a lack of confidence in the government and even social unrest.

There seem to be 3 investing camps out there, those that believe we are in stagflation, those that think we are in inflation and, lastly, those who can't decide.

In Part II of a two-part series, The Money MD focuses on the remaining four of the "seven sins" of memory that Joachim Klement, CIO at Zurich's Wellershoff & Partners, says are to blame for recurring financial calamities.

New research suggests that market motion is far more important than either asset allocation or active portfolio management, accounting for 75% of all market returns (or lack thereof).

One client, we’ll call her Jane, lost 40% of her portfolio in the recent downturn. She is a mess. Her sleeplessness and anxiety make her feel wretched. And that’s only the beginning. Her mood extends to others who, when they experience her negativity, don’t feel so good either.

As early as 2001, a group of more than a dozen investment specialists including money managers, consultants, quantitative analysts and fund-of funds executives questioned Madoff’s consistency of returns.

The market mostly goes down. Your portfolio does too. Only your cash and bonds are providing portfolio stability.

We may be in a whole new world. Shorting stock has been a dirty word. Yet, that tactic is gaining new respect. That is because the only people that are making money in this market have largely been shorting it.

Chicken Little keeps waiting for the sky to fall. In this pessimistic frame of mind, he never thinks about taking opportunities that arise while he is waiting for the sky to fall. (Maybe the sky won’t fall.)