Blair Hull is Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Matlock Capital, a private financial investment firm based in Chicago that works in the areas of financial engineering, systems, and investments.
Starting with the goal of establishing one of the world’s premier market-making firms, Blair Hull founded Hull Trading Company in Chicago in 1985; an organization […]
Millionaires have more in common with each other than just their bank accounts - for some millionaires, striking it rich took courage, salesmanship, vision and passion. Find out which traits are most common to the seven-figure bank account set, and what you can do to hone some of these skills in your own life.
1. Independent […]
When your grandparents lamented that a dollar just isn’t a dollar anymore, they weren’t just bellyaching. Inflation attacks the value of a dollar, reducing it as time goes by so you need more dollars as time goes on. That is one of the reasons that $1 million is often thrown around as a retirement goal. […]
Let’s face it; we all don’t make millions of dollars a year, and the odds are that most of us won’t receive a large windfall inheritance either. However, that doesn’t mean that we can’t build sizeable wealth - it’ll just take some time. If you’re young, time is on your side and retiring a millionaire […]
Becoming a millionaire used to mean you were on top of the world. Nowadays, it means you are climbing up the ladder. While a million dollars is completely out of reach for many people, it’s just a step along the way for many others. Why? Because it doesn’t go as far as it used to.
The […]
One of my former competitors once cornered me at a party a couple of months after she’d been relieved of her duties. “How did you always know who to put on the cover?” She was referring to the fact that while I was editor of Seventeen and CosmoGIRL!, we’d often take chances putting rising stars […]
Brandon Adams, who teaches behavioral finance at Harvard University’s Department of Economics, says some of the best candidates for Wall Street trading jobs are the professional card players at FullTiltPoker.com and similar Web sites.
“They’ve essentially been the survivors in the system, a very difficult system where 95 percent of people lose money,” the 30-year-old Adams, […]
