Kevin J. Palmer

BIO

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

Kevin J. Palmer

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Easter Economics

  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, […]

Growing China’s Middle Class

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 […]

Kevin J. Palmer a Trendsetter

    Kevin J. Palmer The Quiet Rich      

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True Yield Comes in Human Terms

True Yield Comes in Human Terms An Encore Performance Originally Published on January 27, 2015 Kevin J. Palmer   Economic Justice Activist Being on LinkedIn is new to me and I’m a bit clumsy, like leaving my “notify your network” button on while I built my profile, but I’m glad to have stumbled in here. In […]

Do Not be Well Behaved or Easily Wooed

“You may have heard me tell the strikers to stand down. I was interrupted but those words were what the rich and powerful wanted me to stay to you. But the truth is something else entirely. It may sound strange to hear a man of God say this but the truth is that America is […]

The Essence of Experience

Teachings of Buddhism is that unhappiness is caused by desire and avoidance. Desire for things we like and avoidance of the things we don’t like. Suffering is a lack of acceptance of how things are, so we run away from things we don’t like, and we chase the things we like. This is the wheel […]

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Human Nature not Modern Culture is Destroying Earth’s Biodiversity

A polluted and deteriorating planet is easily blamed on societal impacts of digitalization, a virtual generation, or a global breakdown of “decent society”. Man’s ego, makes it hard to simply admit that humans are still way too immature. Emotional Development somehow never figures into the destruction equation. That’s a shame, because to fix a worst-case […]

End Apartheid

End Imperialism and Apartheid  

When a country controls another politically and/or economically against the will of the majority that is a crime against humanity. The British established colonies in North America and people in the thirteen colonies revolted because it was wrong.   “It takes a revolution to make a solution” -Bob Marley   There are at least four types […]

Dull Beta Enhance Alpha

I saw the writing on wall, when the first non-broker trained CEO was appointed at MERRILL LYNCH. My boss, who answered directly to that CEO, said to me after the first meeting, “…some people make bold moves to climb to the top. Others hide behind the bold so they don’t get shot, in hopes of […]

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Kevin Palmer Discharged Shockwave with His Take on Covid-19

Kevin Palmer discharged shockwave with his take on Covid-19 Government was a beacon of clarity during another pandemic in 1349. Politicians being no different than now, had much to say about the crisis. Science, although in its infancy, had its own versions of Dr. Fauci types who also added to the mix because it was […]

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Has the American Dream been lost? Interview with a, Writer, Rebel, Producer, Poet

We’ve just seen one of the most contentious elections in history.  Has the American Dream been lost?   America was founded upon personal freedoms, or so we were taught. We are the greatest nation on earth and I’d rather be nowhere else. The problem we have now has plagued civilizations throughout history. The regular person […]

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In 1492 Columbus Sailed…With a PR Team

Monday October 12th is Indigenous Peoples Day. If you miss the parade, you likely missed the one for Leif Erikson on October 9th, which was also the anniversary of John Lennon’s birthday—but be patient, I will connect the dots.   Today, an emotionally skewed country celebrates the day in 1492, when Christopher Columbus discovered America. […]

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Trust Government

Government was a beacon of clarity during another pandemic in 1349. Politicians being no different than now, had much to say about the crisis. Science, although in its infancy, had its own versions of Dr. Fauci types who also added to the mix because it was in everyone’s best interests to save lives. Motives were […]