http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Dr.+Scott+Brown%2C+Ph.D. Self Help Dr. Scott Brown, Ph.D. Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=288877&ca=Self+Help I get Kurt Vonnegut. He was once asked by an aspiring author what it took to succeed. Without blinking the famous writer bluntly remarked, “Stop writing crap!” I too am blunt and to the point when I review books. But, that sort of dedication to professionalism can wither relationships with friends w... Finances Dr. Scott Brown, Ph.D. Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=52223&ca=Finances The second step you have to take to get yourself moving forward financially is to learn to monitor your finances. Computers can really help us today if we let them. Put all of your bills on auto pay and scrutinize everything monthly looking for wasted expenditures. If you have a spend thrift in your... Finances Dr. Scott Brown, Ph.D. Wed, 17 May 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=49633&ca=Finances Back in 1998 I wrote an article warning people that the stock market was extremely overpriced. I was seeing obvious signs of idiocy in the stock market. The first big sign was a rampant hype of how great the big stock opportunity was in the popular press. I was seeing new investing shows pop up on T... Finances Dr. Scott Brown, Ph.D. Thu, 04 May 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=50575&ca=Finances I was watching Oprah the other night. She was covering the reality of the crappy lie called the American Dream that says just work hard and everything will be Peachey keen in the land of the free and the home of the brave. She pointed out that 1% of the U.S. population now control 40% of the all Ame... Finances Dr. Scott Brown, Ph.D. Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=41358&ca=Finances I recently wrote an article where I mentioned the economic fact that nothing in the perceptual world has in itself any value whatsoever. The only reason anything in your world has value is because you believe it so AND so does at least one other person. Collective agreement is the only reason anythi... Finances Dr. Scott Brown, Ph.D. Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=40444&ca=Finances I know many people who want to be stock market millionaires. They ask how all the time on “The Wallet Doctor” Ezine. It is actually not that complex if you know what you are doing. Becoming a millionaire does require discipline and the more the better. There are a couple of main concepts that you ha... Finances Dr. Scott Brown, Ph.D. Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=39245&ca=Finances I was just talking with a real estate professional in Northern California about how precarious the market for residential homes is becoming. My friend is an elderly real estate broker that started selling real estate in the 1970s and now has over three decades in the industry. She has seen the price... Finances Dr. Scott Brown, Ph.D. Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=39653&ca=Finances I was watching Suze Orman with my wife today. A woman called in who is trying to reestablish credit after a prior bankruptcy. She told Suze that she had gone to a “restore your credit” seminar where the speaker taught the audience to get two secured credit cards. Secured credit cards are where you g... Finances Dr. Scott Brown, Ph.D. Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=39988&ca=Finances Controlling your debt is the first step to preparing for investing in the stock market. If your debt is high then your debt payments are high. This means that you have very little to save and invest each month as compared to if you had little or even no debt. Here are two practical suggestions to ge... Finances Dr. Scott Brown, Ph.D. Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=40124&ca=Finances Airline pilots practice fly in simulators before taking off in an expensive new jet. They do this so that they don’t kill themselves or their passengers. They also do this so that a very expensive airplane does not get destroyed! In the futures markets people who trade commodities have been practici...