Bob Brinker Advisor Reviews

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January 18, 2009
I have appreciated Bob's advice over the years. However, I wonder if the marketimer model is missing something that would have allowed a more accurate prediction and understanding of the current down market. Not all that long ago, Bob was predicting 1600 on the S & P which turns out to be half right.

January 15, 2009
I LIKE BOB CAUSE HE SHOOTS FROM THE HIP. HE SEEMS TO SAY IT LIKE HE SEES IT.

January 11, 2009
He says in good times there should be no deficits and sites 2003 - 5 - 6 - 7... slamming Bush for deficits in good times"" Tell me more how war, yes needed war is good times? It is good we have a base on the ground there with all that is going on in the Mid East, but to fund that war Bush had to go along with a lot of Democrat problematic spending.. their spending.. like THEIR problem they inherit from Fannie and Housing bubble difficulties. Get ready for more of it - spending .. Democrat - their spending in whatever times"

January 11, 2009

What, do you think this is magic? Do you think he is going to get it right everytime. There are

no psychics in Finance. There are educated, experienced people who make their best guess based on the aforementioned attributes.

Yes, Jimmy Carter is a nice guy who is doing great things for the homless but he sucked as a president. How anyone can respect Bill Clinton for anything other than being a shyster, you must be blinded by your own partisianship. Yes, George Bush was a great let down. Are there any real statesman left in this country???

January 11, 2009

I've listened for over 10 years. To sum up Mr. Brinker's work, as with almost anyone with such a long history, in one blog statement or a 5-star rating system is asking for distortions and omissions. But I will attempt a quick distillate.

His market timing advice has been hit or miss. The calls in January of 2000 to get out and in March 2003 to get back in were both outstanding. He missed this 2007-8 call but so did many others without insider info on the banks.

John Bogel called this downturn a Black Swan"" (Mr. Black Swan himself, N. Taleb did not miss this!) but if you follow the advice of most investment pros including very respected guys like John Bogel, Burton Malkeil, Buffet, etc., they would have you ""buy and hold"" anyway. In other words, a ""BB miss"" is a default play by these other ""buy and hold"" guys. Either way, you are following the advice of respected guys with good to great track records. During a bear market, the advice seems especially bad!

The other personal finance advice BB doles out (e.g. info regarding insurance, annuities, mortgage, credit card, etc...) has largely been excellent.

Aside from his recommendation that you avoid gold (which I can see why - every gold bug in the world would call incessantly), his advice has been invaluable to me personally. It has taught me the correct way to approach and think about personal finance.

As for his political views, overall I agree that he is right-leaning, as are most of your Wall St. Journal types. This is not that surprising - it goes along with their indoctrination and their friends - most are greedy types who view taxes and government regulation as co-enemy number one.

But, perhaps more revealing, BB's right-ish diatribes play to his listening demographic - middle to upper-middle class white males. This is the demographic Republican strategist Frank Luntz correctly predicted that tax and personal finance issues would hold strong appeal. BB is just preaching to his demographic core listener - this is a business strategy.

What is insulting to my intelligence was his insistence that he was independent while launching Limbaugh-esque attacks on Hillary, Obama and Ron Paul.

I am no fan of Hillary but his incessant use of the pejorative ""Evita"" and his defense of McCain was nauseating. His out-of-hand dismissals of Ron Paul almost made me write a letter to ABC. BB's hero worship of Paul Volker was stunningly met with silence when it was learned that Volker endorsed and worked with Obama. Since BB works for ABC radio, sometimes it is difficult to state accurately whether his political comments reflect his views or those of his ABC bosses (Disney) who have profited handsomely under Bush Administration legislation on copyright matters.

Lastly, his adherence to the notion that Nuclear Energy is ""the"" answer. While I am pro-Nucs I am not blind to the problems with Nucs. Nor am I blind to the contradictions both he and Dr. Bill make regarding Nuclear Power.

First, there is an insurance issue. No one in the US will insure nuclear plants - too big of a liability.

Second, Even foreign plants have enormous cost overruns! Another reason Wall Street investors steer clear - not profitable enough to pursue.

Third, Dr. Bill would have you believe that recycled spent fuel rods are necessary and such a procedure would only produce a little bit of bad stuff. That bad stuff is Plutonium and can only be used for 1 thing - bombs - it is very dangerous.

Furthermore, Dr. Bill dismisses nuclear waste as a non-issue... it is a huge issue. I do not recall BB or Dr. Bill proposing an iron clad and universally accepted solution to this problem.

My mother studied graduate level nuclear physics at Yale and Duke. I majored in physics. We both understand the pros and cons of nuclear power. While I favor it over coal, it has problems and the ""glossing over"" of these problems by BB and Dr. Bill is a bit disingenuous."

December 29, 2008
Have listened to BB in the past but with great care and a sharp ear. Although he may have missed this last diaster drop he has had some incredible calls in the past that have made me lots of $. All of the polictical complaining going on up above, these people need to put their energy into something more effective like research! BB is a tool (you can get it for free @ some libraries) use it as such, and as your teacher would say do your homework and stop complianing""."

December 23, 2008
Guys like Brinker are all alike; they are just snake oil salesmen. Do not listen to them; they often have a hidden bias. Rely on yourself, learn all you can, and do your own homework before making any investment decisions. Mistakes are inevitable so use sound money management principles.

December 21, 2008
Bob missed this big Bear market call. He should've made the call after some of the major banks began to fail. Had a lot of time to do it, but failed to react. He's in the business to make these type of calls, especially a major , major correction. So what are we listening to him for, other than telling us all to be diversified all the time, which that we should all know. He's very short with people, and not friendly to many callers who try to get their point across in a nice way, but sometimes aren't well versed enough. I like friendly people, and would hope he becomes better at it...

December 6, 2008

Now Brinker is repeating the lie that United Auto Workers in the U.S. are paid $70+ per hour in wages and benefits.

That $70+ number was calculated once upon a time by factoring in all of the CURRENT RETIREE PAYOUTS into the CURRENT WORKFORCE'S hourly pay.

C'mon, Bob. Go back to ocassionally crediting the Dems and Bill Clinton with outperforming your Republican heros and maybe your stock market calls will start to improve, too.

December 2, 2008
I used to subscribe, I guess its easy to call a bull market when your in a bull market, anyway he missed this one big time in spite of the fact these coming problems were all over the news all through 2007 (Hi oil price, the credit crunch, diminishing dollar value etc). He's been around for a long time, maybe he's just getting too old to make these calls.

December 1, 2008

The more Bob Brinker bashed Hillary Clinton over her position on the economy during the past year, the more her assessment for what to do has become the best recourse available and the worse Bob's market calls became.

It must be a virus running through RightWing talk radio. Even Bob's replacement, Bill Flannigan, has caught it. Today he said (seemingly with a straight face) that Jimmy Carter was the worst president of his lifetime"".

This, coming at the end of these last eight years of total domestic and foreign policy meltdown at the hands of Republicans controlling the White House and both houses of Congress.

Even Forbes Magazine in their most recent ranking of ""Presidents and Prosperity"" (you can find it with a google search on that phrase) ranked Jimmy Carter 4th among presidents who served at least one full 4-year term since FDR.

The only Republican that ranked fractionally higher than Jimmy Carter on Forbes' ""Presidents and Prosperity"" list was Ronald Reagan...largely because Reagan kept the same brilliant Fed Chairman, Paul Volker, that Carter appointed and stayed the course on Carter's/Volker's policies."

November 24, 2008

BRINKER is an IDIOT. He bashed the DEMs and never predicted the Bear MKT. He was totally clueless and a LIAR TO BOOT.

I stopped listening to this DMBASS when the market started to TANK.

I will never listen to that AHOLE again.

November 19, 2008

Brinker mentions his free recomend reading list almost every week. If you read, you'll find out the Market Timing is risky.

If you've listened to the guests on Brinker's show, you've hear some contridictions to what Brinker says. If you will hear Brinker tell you not to do things you don't understand, not to listen to gurus.

The show is talk about money.

November 19, 2008

Don't assume comments on this site are accurate, including mine. I've listen to money talk weekly for 6 years. Some things attributed to Brinker here were said by callers, not Brinker.

As to bashing politicians, Brinker points out things thinks are mistakes, regardless of party. He has consistantly blamed both parties for the current situation, naming names and actions.

He did not take sides in the election. He discussed possible consequences of proposed actions of each candidate. That's what I expect from a show called Money Talk.

November 16, 2008
I sometimes listen to Mr. Briker,but I always use my own judgement.So far,on the posts above,I have read,I should blame George Bush,Bill Clinton,Bob Brinker,the Dems and the Republians.Well,maybe they're all partly to blame...George is a Republican ,who spends like a Democrat.Bill inherated an economy just rallying out of a recession,and rode it into $200,000 a pop speaking engagements.The Rebublicans wanted everyone in the media to like them,so they spent along with the Dems,your money and mine and our childrens.The fact is,our tax dollars,social security,and medicare are all....I.O.U.'s.,likly never to be cashed if you are 40 or younger.With big government spending,more and more people not paying any taxes at all,and the middle class breaking their backs to make ends meet,I don't see a short term end to the recession we are now in..And least we forget, the top 1% of earners paying 40% of the taxes in the U.S.A.and an Obama promise that they will shoulder MORE of the burden,well,this does not sound like a recipe for a robust stock market;and,I don't need Brinker to tell me that.Last year I bought a FIXED ANNUITY for 10 years at 6%.I got out of what I thought was a bad economy for the reasons listed above.I now get $5000 a month(annuity and defined benifits package),take lots of golf vacations and don't look at CNBC anymore.Sometime YOU must read the tea leaves,not depend on the government or B.B. to bail you out...Over and out...I have a tee time soon.

November 10, 2008

He was at it again this weekend. Now he is repeating the Rush Limbaugh spin about how the Democrats just might take a notion any minute now to confiscate your 401K"".

I swear, he connected the dots from one economist's comment at a Congressional hearing...to Argentina confiscating pension funds...to ""not a great leap to assume Congress is seriously contemplating this"" to TELLING his listeners their 401ks might be confiscated by Congress any minute now.

I should have stopped listening to him after the third or fourth weekend he spent trashing Hillary Clinton during the primaries as ""Evita"" and then assured us it was not in his nature to be politically partisan."

November 8, 2008
Brinker was able to forecast the collapse of the Tech Market bubble in 2000. He told his Marketimer subscibers to get out of the market becasue the P/E ratios were way out of line. Since the market started its downward spiral a year ago he has continued to advise subscribers to dollar cost average into this market. My point is his crystal ball is no better than anyone else that looks at market fundamentals. Like everyone else he failed to see the coming perfect storm of housing, credit and banking. Save $185 a year and buy FDIC insured Certificates of Deposit.

November 5, 2008
My Dad paid $185 for the past 5 years of his retirement for Bob Brinker's subscription. Cheap compared to what he lost in the market thanks to Bob Brinker's insistance to BUY and stay in the market. Why wasn't a man of his stature able to see what was up ahead? It would have cemented him forever in the Walk of Finance Fame. Instead I'm afraid what happened due to his lack of seeing the fundamental BIG 3 (Credit, Banking, Housing) his credibility will be forever tarnished.

October 25, 2008

Bob Brinker was blinded by his pro-Republican parisanship this year and that's why he missed calling the banking collapse.

He spent the primaries bashing Hillary Clinton (on the assumption that she would be most likely to beat the Republican nominee). And now he tells his audience every week that the crisis was caused by Democratic President Bill Clinton signing the legislation that eliminated Glass-Steagall.

But he NEVER tells his audience that legislation was handed to Bill Clinton by the Republican controlled Congress of 1999 with an OVERWHELMING VETO PROOF MAJORITY support from the House (84% to 15%) and the Senate (90% to 9%). Bill Clinton couldn't have prevented that legislation from passing even if he hated it.

I consider his persistent ommission of that critical detail to be a shameful partisan lie.

October 20, 2008
I was sick thinking I shouldn't have let my subscription run out this past spring assuming I was going to miss out on a sell alert.....Well at least I'm a $185 richer today.