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      

Recent Posts

Deviation of Human Nature

  My research continually confirms business is in 1 standard deviation of human nature with some sales spin. In a place once called Yugoslavia, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1914. The crown prince Franz Ferdinand, thought he’d follow up with a sales call in a place called Sarajevo, after they cut a deal to […]

Love and Money

  While on a cross-country flight, I met a man who turned idealism into financial reward in the most unlikely of places—high-rolling Las Vegas.   “I usually don’t talk during flights,” I said.   Jack jumped in, “But Cindy just opened a door that has been locked for years. Do you want to walk in? […]

The Best Man

  It is such a happiness when good people get together—and they always do. —Jane Austen While on a cross-country flight, I met a man who turned idealism into financial reward in the most unlikely of places—high-rolling Las Vegas. Jack Thunder grew up in Nebraska when TV shows were in black-and-white and heroes stood for […]

Momentum-creating philosophy moved him

  “You did it simply by doing something entirely different, knowing it required being flexible and taking chances.” (My conversation continues with Thomas Seekins, a lone traveler, while we are on an archaeological dig in 2011.) “Yes, but there was more going on behind the scenes. Back at the hotel, I was doing my own […]

Combining Resources to Create a Perfect Getaway

  My conversation continues with Thomas Seekins, a lone traveler, while we are on an archaeological dig in 2011. Thomas was precise as he told me that he moved slowly but surely, thinking through one obstacle at a time. As I watched his hands artistically move as he spoke, it occurred to me that his […]

Take the step that is before you now

  “I bandied about the pros and cons in my head for days in regards to buying the hotel I had been working at. A feeling akin to hunger lingered in the pit of my stomach although I lacked an appetite. How many scenarios would I think of before I could make a decision? With […]

Seeing what it takes to be a leader

  “No kidding. Harry had no children and was hoping to retire but couldn’t face the prospect of selling the business he’d started from scratch. Once I got the job at the coffeehouse, I worked more than full time for Harry. I liked him—we had a bond. That winter was a bad one, and we […]

Conflict was a sign to make a change

  “Wait a minute,” I said. “You thought leaving the motel you felt you owned and going back to driving tourists would make you happier? That doesn’t make sense.”   My conversation continues with Thomas Seekins, a lone traveler, while we are on an archaeological dig in 2011.   “You know, you’re right. I wasn’t […]

All Great Warriors Experience Fear

  My conversation continues with Thomas Seekins, a lone traveler, while we are on an archaeological dig in 2011.   Open to his next adventure being better than his last one, Tom walked into a bar in downtown Jasper and, within an hour, stepped into his next job.   “I went to this local Indian […]

Always Ready to Try Something New

  My conversation continues with Thomas Seekins, a lone traveler, while we are on an archaeological dig in 2011.   “On that short train trip, I thought about what Sam (Sam was a full-blooded Native American who had come to Canada in search of work) told me and compared it to what I had known […]