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

Cult of Celebrity

Published in the May-June 2012 Rebel Magazine, Rebel Culture Shock

 

Kevin J. Palmer

 

Excessive hero worship has warped our perspectives on reality and self-expectations.

 

In a recent survey, 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 from the sports or entertainment world, running the gamut from Mickey Mantle to Mick Jagger.

None of those interviewed had looming bodyguards protecting them from hordes of autograph seekers or left the premises in sleek black limousines.  This raised the questions (politely unasked, of course) about why they’d set such unrealistic childhood expectations in the first place and how they were adjusting as adults.

 

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Kevin J. Palmer

The Quiet Rich

Kevin J. Palmer