Why are lawyers in every survey since the profession started always viewed so negatively? All of our major life events — birth, marriage and death — are enmeshed in a legal network.

Depending upon your age, investment fortunes and inheritance status, your medical license is far and away the biggest asset that most doctors have.

If day trading, commodities or puts and calls are not arcane enough investing for you, I have three ideas that might intrigue. They are — in order of decreasing risk — investing in pending lawsuits, viatical or death bond investments, and factored structured payouts.

This Thanksgiving Americans might need to be reminded that they still have a lot to be thankful for. Here's what Jeff Brown has been contemplating.