Book Reviews

Power Grab

May 27th, 2010 | By Charles L. Stanley CFP® ChFC® AIF® | Category: Book Reviews

“The goal of Obama’s power grab is to grab your power: your wealth, economic liberties, and personal freedoms. You aren’t falling for it any longer. And this is causing Obama and his allies to become more desperate, and to push harder, to steal your freedoms faster. Events and the American character have conspired to bring [...]



For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization

Apr 4th, 2010 | By Charles L. Stanley CFP® ChFC® AIF® | Category: Book Reviews

This book was copyrighted in 1993 but couldn’t be more contemporary. Adams gives us a tour of taxation in world  history and its impact on civilization. Good tax policy causes societies to prosper and grow, bad tax policy brings down civilizations. It happens over and over. It would be wonderful if we could learn from [...]



Brokerage Fraud: What Wall Street Doesn’t Want You to Know

Aug 12th, 2009 | By Charles L. Stanley CFP® ChFC® AIF® | Category: Book Reviews

Wall Street brokerage fraud isn’t anything new. It was around long before any of us heard of Bernie Madoff and his  ponzi scheme or Allen Stanford of The Stanford Group and their crimes or the plethora of other schemsters that have come to light now that FINRA has had the spotlight shined on them and [...]