Shea Capital Management, LLC: helping clients achieve their dreams.
We all dream. Shea Capital Management is on a mission to help clients achieve those dreams. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I'm creating a new industry," says Geoffrey Shea, president. "Attempting to make money for people in bull or bear markets is only a portion of what I...

Banking on people.
The kid was good - phenomenally good. At a Colorado College course on sustainable economics and ecology taught by economist Walt Hecox and me, most students thrive on building a model for sustainable, community-based forestry within a market-driven economy. But this kid, Sam Beebe, was way good. At the end...

Finance on the Fringe: America's check cashers don't exploit the poor; they serve them.
THAT ANNA HAS a problem becomes clear shortly after I sidle up next to her on the cold stone steps of the First Union Bank in downtown New Haven on a chilly fall afternoon. In fact, the 56-year-old woman has many problems--including, she's quick to point out, more than...

Last Wishes: A Handbook to Guide Your Survivors.
By Lucinda Page Knox, M.S.W., and Michael D. Knox, Ph.D. 160 pages, Ulysses Press, $12.95 "The time has come, " the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And what to do before...

More ways to pay less.
Obviously, you want to pay Uncle Sam as little as possible, but you are not quite sure how to (legally) hang on to more of your money. "There are plenty of ways to take some of the teeth out of your annual tax bite," maintains Taxes 2006 For Dummies,...

What Citibank can learn from the House bank.
And what the insulated media can learn from my bounced check I don't write bad checks very often, but I did write one last year. It was an honest mistake, the kind many people make: A deposit didn't clear as quickly as I thought. Maybe I got...

Direct response pays off: mortgage, credit and banking institutions all invest in DR's back-end sales principles.
When DRTV talks real estate and investments most people think Carleton Sheets for obvious reasons. Sheets' "No Down Payment" real estate investment educational series has been a DRTV hit for more than 20 years and still ranks as the No.1 business opportunity product on the Infomercial Monitoring Service's (IMS)...

Economic bubbles: the Fed's financial control creates housing and other bubbles that burst with disastrous effect. The solution is to end central control and embrace free-market principles.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Many Americans today are understandably concerned about the state of the economy. The current recession is likely to be one of the worst in recent memory, and comes at a particularly difficult time for many Americans, just as many of the Baby Boom generation are...

Japan goes postal: freeing the mail.
JAPAN'S POST office has been run by the government for 13O years, but not for much longer. Last fall Japan Post began the first stage of its 10-year privatization plan by officially splitting into four separate businesses: Japan Post Service Co., Japan Post Network Co., Japan Post Bank Co.,...

Treasurer's report.
Despite some turbulence in the financial markets, most notably the sub-prime mortgage crisis, the Melville Society had a respectable year in 2007. The Murray Endowment has posted a positive YTD return of 3.4%, the Cohen Fund has posted a 7.0% YTD return, and the Society's autumn solicitation of membership...