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How to Select Your First Investment
A quick tutorial on how to logically approach selecting the first core investment of your portfolio.

Stephen Paluga
Jan 13, 2022


The EquiAlt $170 million Ponzi Scheme
On February 18, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced an emergency enforcement action and a temporary restraining order and asset freeze against Florida-based private real estate firm EquiAlt LLC, its CEO Brian Davison, and its Managing Director Barry Rybicki, in connection with an alleged fraudulent unregistered securities offering that raised more than $170 million from at least 1,100 investors, a number of whom invested their retirement funds.

Stephen Paluga
Dec 25, 2021


The Widow’s Annuity
A widow was referred to Watch Guard Capital in late 2021 after her independent insurance salesperson wouldn’t return her calls. She was trying to find out why the value of her Athene Ascent Pro Bonus annuity didn’t seem to be growing. This video covers the annuity review process and what I found.

Stephen Paluga
Dec 8, 2021


Fixing the Debt Ceiling
Imagine being able to improve the position of both Social Security and the Military Retirement Fund while simultaneously buying relief from the debt limit. In this video, I show how implementing two previous ideas is the smartest way we can avoid the Debt Ceiling “game of chicken."

Stephen Paluga
Oct 1, 2021


Optimize the Military Retirement Fund
This video explains how National Security could be increased by reducing "Special-Issued Myself IOU Treasury Bonds" in the Military Retirement Fund and how investing a portion in the stock market could have saved a trillion dollars over the last two years.

Stephen Paluga
Sep 15, 2021
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