I delivered this speech on Thursday evening, March 3, at an event we did in Newport Beach with Father Robert Sirico of the Acton Institute. I previously posted the video link of my speech, but recognizing some may prefer the written word, wanted to provide...
The first week of March I hosted a symposium in my hometown of Newport Beach, CA on the subject of the free and virtuous society, where the message of human flourishing as made possible by free enterprise was discussed by myself, and then keynoted by...
The below represents the transcript of a speech I gave June 4, 2015, in Phoenix, AZ at the Collegiate Academy of the Alliance Defending Freedom. The audience was extremely active and ambitious and worldview-oriented undergrad college students in their upperclassmen years. The topic...
In October of last year I made the decision after seven and a half exhilirating years at Morgan Stanley that I was going to start my own boutique firm. Two months ago I resigned as a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at Morgan Stanley,...
If Mad Men wasn't the greatest show in the history of television (geez I loved The Sopranos and Breaking Bad), it certainly was the greatest "business" show in television history, but really that doesn't come close to covering it. What Mad Men was can best...
I heard a well-known Christian leader and author inform 250 successful Christian businesspeople and donors a few days ago that "your business is just a side business; you cannot ever lose track of the fact that your real business is God's business". I am not saying...
As I gleefully communicated this week to my Facebook friends, Twitter followers, and even clients and professional associates via private email distribution, I enjoyed one of the great blessings of my life this week in participating in the ringing of the opening bell on the...
There are few things in the world that annoy me more than upper middle class pastors living an upper middle class lifestyle in an upper middle class home within an upper middle class community who moralize over the evils of an upper middle class existence....
I write a blog every Monday for my company's internal Advisor website, basically read only by advisors within my own firm. I thought the following entry had a broader ethical message worth sharing to a wider audience. ********** When I was a financial advisor trainee many...
This last week has been a chilling reminder of the painful reality that America has enemies who will stop at nothing to hurt her. Whether it be two radicalized Islamic terrorists from a radicalized Islamic country, or the coordinated effort of twenty terrorists working...
