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

A Seeker of Knowledge

  My conversation continues with Thomas Seekins, a lone traveler, while we are on an archaeological dig in 2011.   “So when I got to Calgary, the only job I could find was driving a taxi on the midnight-to-dawn shift. My boss gave me a map of the city, and I studied it by walking […]

Owning the land, not with money

  After five days on a Greyhound bus, Thomas Seekins knew that he’d never set foot in Boston again. When the door opened, a rush of hot air that felt hauntingly familiar enveloped him. His own voice filled his head: Finally, I’m in the land of my ancestors. The year was 1960. Thomas spent a […]

Seeding Success for Others

  Roads to Riches It’s not what you find, it’s what you find out. —David Hurst Thomas   At the age of twenty in 1960, Thomas Seekins was a lone traveler from Boston who accepted situations as opportunities to move to new places and experiences into affluence. I met Thomas when we spent a week […]

Learning to listen to your soul

  The following is an excerpt from the book titled, The Quiet Rich: Ordinary People Reawakening an American Dream.   Shaun’s Story Continued: “Sounds like you’ve learned to listen to your soul,” I said. “Your determination will make you the architect of your own success. Learning who you really are, being unafraid to go deep inside […]

The only real limitations are in the mind.

  An excerpt from the book titled, The Quiet Rich: Ordinary People Reawakening an American Dream.   Shaun’s Success Story Continued:   Some of Shaun’s new friends were curious about his prosthetic hand, but his confidence never wavered. However, when it came to dating, he faced questions even Superman couldn’t answer. For Shaun, romance required […]

Focus and Collaborating with a Friend

  An excerpt from Chapter 1 from the book titled, The Quiet Rich: Ordinary People Reawakening an American Dream.“    Shaun’s Success Story I was the only one of my friends who knew how to drive a car before I was sixteen, and I was the only one who had a car,” Shaun said with […]

Not limited by his disability

  One night over dinner, Andy told Shaun he thought it was time that Shaun practiced driving the family car—after Shaun met a few conditions. The pastor had agreed to give Andy a nonworking 1942 Oldsmobile, and if Shaun could make it run, it would be his, free and clear. I watched as the father […]

Combating Hopelessness

  “I didn’t even feel it,” Shaun said. “It was like watching a movie.”   “You were in shock,” Sarah said. “As his mom, I’m still in shock, but Shaun adapted. He only cried once, and that was when he saw my concern for him.”   “But I did struggle with it, Mom. I just […]

It was like watching a movie

  It was a Sunday when I took possession of the rented home where I would spend the next six months creating and implementing a company business plan. It didn’t take long to settle in, and as I shoveled light snowdrifts off the porch, a man, a woman, and a boy arrived with a plate […]

Broke, Not Broken

  Broke, Not Broken I choose not to place “dis” in my ability. —Robert M. Hensel   In the 1990s, one of my corporate directives was to expand the firm’s footprint into markets that had growing client bases. After several months of running hypotheticals, I was off to Colorado. Andy and Sarah, who lived down […]