Kevin J. Palmer uses his Wealth Stratification expertise to understand markets and as a writer/producer to champion financial justice. He has spent decades driving profits and performance for Wall Street firms and developed high margin revenue business models that allowed broker-dealers to gain substantial competitive advantage. He was responsible for improvements in financial delivery systems and recurring revenue models that were scalable across the United States.
Recently at his behavioral finance firm, this recognized wealth expert, mapped how ordinary people used cognition and personality to make financial decisions that created wealth.
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.” – Michel de Montaigne
“Financial Freedom is not worrying about the ignorance of imbeciles.” – Kevin J Palmer
“Kevin Palmer’s work merges human anecdotes with intellectual insight.” – P. H. Casidy
Noted author and scholar R.R. Reno said, “From the end of the Civil War until the 1960s, the wealthiest, best educated, and most powerful Americans remained largely loyal to Christianity (but) that’s changed…” He was not alone in arguing that material attainment and ethics are often mutually exclusive. Growing rich, is demonstrably under attack, […]
By Caitlin Milmeyster Sr. Consultant Enterprise Risk Services, Deloitte & Touche And Kevin J. Palmer CEO SMA Institute Growing China’s Middle Class From The Inside Out Economic pundits are coming to grips with a new global realty check. The realization that industrialized double digit export growth in China is unsustainable. However, that has not deterred […]
Economic projections for muted growth in China have thrown global markets into a frenzy. Volatility and fast markets have been the order of business for global exchanges as of late. On Wall Street last week stocks suffer their second worst mid-year low since 1928. News that China’s manufacturing sector shrank to its lowest […]
I wanted to share my response to a friend’s email on Friday, August 22, 2015. Usually I don’t log in on weekends but yesterday was quite an event. It will be more interesting to see Monday’s activity to the better answer your question.
My alma mater asked me to prepare a Business/Finance class. It will be called, Conversations about Financial Freedom for Reawaken American Dreams, (The Behavioral Aspect of Entrepreneurship). Changes in philosophy about financial security from my undergraduate days are astonishing. On campus it is no longer about work and money but passion and purpose. Millennials like […]
It was Sunday night August 9th when I sat down to reminisce about 1995 when Jerry Garcia died. He was only 53 but struggled with a cocaine and heroin addiction for years. Over medicating was an emblem of the Grateful Dead and their counter culture followers who played and danced their way across America. […]
On my hike today I heard a woman tell her friend that she was, “going to tie the dog in the yard because that dog sucks.” Wrong, I thought, “you suck.” The dog behaves only as well as it was trained and teaching a dog is the responsibility of the owner. Animals are completely […]
As recipient of the Governor’s Archaeology Award I am dedicated to the management of ancient cultural resources. A worthy steward of that ethic is the Arizona Archaeological Society (AAS). Its proud history is one of peaks and troughs but primarily a consistent climb from a simple idea to an organization that was not only […]
On a Thanksgiving trip back east to my parents’ home a few years ago I listened to my father’s version of how our country’s social values have embarrassingly declined. “People today,” he said, “can’t create new wealth without the help of corrupt schemes.” I sensed sadness in his voice. The lessons he and […]
In a recent survey done by the SMA Institute we asked several men in three different cities who they had looked up to as boys. Who did they want to be most like as adults? All except two responded with a superstar figure form the sports or entertainment world, running the gamut from […]
The governor’s balanced budget initiative has brought back an old argument that comes up whenever it is time to cut spending. How much more money is needed to make education work? Spending money on kids is a great argument but maybe the question is about how the current educational system works. The best […]
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