Dan Nestlerode

Shall we kick the can of decision down the road and keep all our sacred cows or make the sacrifices needed to get our economy growing and creating wealth for all of us? I guess this is what elections are all about, Dan Nestlerode writes.

This is the time of year that many of the investment and economic experts scratch their heads, ponder the latest numbers and make predictions for the coming year.

In my 47 years as an investment adviser, I have never seen such an extended period of stimulus by the Federal Reserve, Dan Nestlerode writes.

I will soon start my 48th year in the investment business. All my years have been committed to assisting the retail investor and non-profit organizations successfully traverse the investment markets, Dan Nestlerode writes.

The most frustrating thing about successful investing is its limited lifecycle. Just when it starts to provide a nice flow of profits, the game changes, necessitating a change in investment strategy. Investing is an endeavor of constant learning. Those who ignore this suffer greatly.

Healthcare is something to which many people give high priority. Unfortunately, through the Affordable Healthcare Act, government has thrust itself into the concerns that people have about the healthcare services they obtain and how they obtain them.

Toward the end of the second Bush Administration, I began to notice that gold had been performing quite well for nearly seven years.

The student loan business is now the fastest growing credit business in the country, outpacing credit card debt for the first time in 2010. It is also a business with a huge default rate, Dan Nestlerode writes.