Financially Forward: Gerald Harris

Drive around the country and you’ll see great wealth: people living in incredible mansions with rolling, trimmed lawns, amazing new skyscrapers enhancing city skylines, and luxurious cars parked in circular driveways, to name just a few examples of that wealth.  All of these are typical of the opulence that exists in certain parts of America.  But often - sometimes within walking distance of them -there’s a very different side of modern society: poverty so extreme that it’s hard to believe that both exist in the same country at the same time.

Just when the news becomes so weird, so bizarre, that you’re sure it can’t get any crazier, it does. If you’re skeptical about this, check the latest issue of The Economist, a well-known and respected financial magazine. An article they just ran urges readers to change their diet in order to save the planet. Their recommendation: People should eat bugs.

A tiny Israeli company thinks it has developed a product that can successfully compete in a giant industry. It won’t take long to find out if they’re right because the product will be introduced in the US in 2020 and in Europe a few months after that. If they’re right, significant growth could follow.

 Countless people try to figure out whether stocks are bargains or overpriced, but no one on Wall Street can do this better than company insiders. CEOs, CFOs, and other senior executives know everything important there is to know about their companies, and that’s why very recent statistics about their activities are so worrisome. Insiders, you see, are unloading stock at the fastest pace in two decades.

You’re idealistic, concerned about all the problems in the world, and want to help people. Should you run for president?

People look forward to their golden years for a variety of reasons. It’s a great opportunity to spend more time with family, increase spiritual activities, and finally cut back on a grueling work load. But a growing number of people are watching those plans vanish because of an unexpected development: They are being forced into bankruptcy. The reason for this: out-of-control medical bills.