James J. Puplava, CFP Bio & Archive

Financial Sense Market Commentator

PFS Group, Founder
Puplava Financial Services, Inc. President & CEO, Investment Advisor Representative
Puplava Securities, Inc. President & CEO, Registered Representative
Financial Sense & Financial Sense Newshour Author & Host

BIO

Mr. Puplava graduated cum laude in History and Economics from Arizona State University. He then went on to graduate summa cum laude with a Master's Degree in Finance and Accounting from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird). Among his many awards and achievements, Jim was honored in 1992 as one of America's top ten financial representatives by Registered Representative magazine.

Jim Puplava's professional designations include Certified Financial Planner; Series 7 and Series 24 with the NASD; and Life, Disability and Variable Insurance licenses. Mr. Puplava has been President of Puplava Financial Services, Inc. (PFS) since 1985. For twelve years, James Puplava held a position as Branch Manager for LPL Financial Services, LLC. In 1996, Mr. Puplava incorporated the broker/dealer firm, Puplava Securities, Inc. (PSI) and is its President.

His business experience includes contributing as a financial writer to various publications and acting as a TV business editor. In 1988, Mr. Puplava began hosting Financial Sense Talkradio on various radio stations in San Diego. Today, Jim Puplava oversees the portfolio management team at Puplava Financial Services, Inc. and Puplava Securities, Inc. He continues his weekly broadcasts and writes thought-provoking commentary for Financial Sense Online.

WRAPUP ARCHIVES

07/22/2005  Unloved and Underowned with Chris Puplava
03/28/2005  The Confidence Game
03/21/2005  Riesgo Pais [Country Risk]
03/14/2005  Recognition, Revaluation & Reallocation
03/07/2005  Let's Get Fictional
02/28/2005  Bear Flattener
02/14/2005  The Three Faces of Inflation
02/07/2005  The Lull Before The Storm - Special Edition WrapUp with Frank Barbera
01/31/2005  The Google-Eyed Market
01/24/2005  Unloved, Undervalued, and Underowned
01/10/2005  Breaking Point
01/03/2005  The Consensus
10/29/2004  Trading Places
05/25/2004  Wishing Upon A Star
03/29/2004  Love My Cisco
03/15/2004  When The Music Stops
03/08/2004  Open the Checkbook - Buy the Ounces with Eric King
03/01/2004  Collision Course: The Perfect Financial Storm
02/23/2004  Helicopter Money
02/09/2004  Looking For The Next Bubble
02/02/2004  Storm Clouds, Crises and Opportunities in Energy
01/26/2004  The Lull Before The Storm
01/12/2004  The Silver and Gold Train Wreck - Part 2
01/05/2004  BELIEVE IT!  with Eric King
12/15/2003  Pac-Man, Clicks & Bricks
12/08/2003  Is This Real?
12/01/2003  Too Many Holes in the Dike to Keep it Plugged
11/18/2003  The Confidence Game
11/17/2003  Good and Bad Inflation
11/12/2003  To the moon, Alice! with Eric King
11/03/2003  Last Bears Standing with Eric King
10/29/2003  The Forgotten Few
10/20/2003  Where's the Beef? with Eric King
10/13/2003  Main Street
10/06/2003  Don't Get Fooled Again
09/29/2003  The Silver & Gold Train Wreck
09/22/2003  The Real Bull Market
09/16/2003  The Glass is Half Full
09/15/2003  The Battle for Money
08/01/2003  Intermarket Relationships to Declining Bonds
07/30/2003  Inflation By Any Other Name
07/28/2003  The Earnings Game and Other Bull Markets (The Silver Streak)
07/21/2003  The Other Side of the Coin
07/16/2003  The Zero-Interest-Rate Economy
07/14/2003  The Two Faces of Inflation
07/09/2003  The 2+2 = 5 Market
07/07/2003  The G-Men
07/02/2003  What's Next?
06/25/2003  Up To Our Eyeballs
06/23/2003  The Last Bullet?
06/18/2003  Analyze This
06/11/2003  Blinded By Glitter
06/04/2003  Popular Delusions
06/02/2003  Desperate Measures
05/21/2003  The Paper Chase
05/14/2003  Q2
05/06/2003  We Are Consuming All of Our Seed Corn
05/05/2003  Trying to Act Sane When Everyone Else is Crazy
05/01/2003  The Reckoning
04/30/2003  Nothing Has Changed
04/29/2003  The Recovery
04/28/2003  CRAP versus GAAP
04/23/2003  Dumb and Dumber
04/09/2003  Bubblicious
04/08/2003  Cabals, Conspiracies, Manipulations & Other Market Machinations
04/07/2003  The War Rally and Then What?
04/03/2003  The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
04/02/2003  Holding The Line
04/01/2003  Ignorance is Bliss
03/31/2003  It's Not the War
03/26/2003  The Road to Perdition
03/24/2003  The Law Of Gravity
03/21/2003  The War, the Markets & Dis-Equilibrium
03/18/2003  Familiar Patterns: Avoiding Drawdowns and Crashes
03/13/2003  The Inane, The Insane, The Suspicious and Other Bubble-Like Behavior
03/10/2003  Countertrends
03/04/2003  Five Smooth Stones: How to fight the Gold Goliaths and WIN! (Special Edition)
02/26/2003  Getting Cheaper, But Still Not A Buy
02/25/2003  The Maginot Line
02/19/2003  Financial Physical or the Perilous State of the Union
02/18/2003  Pump, Dump & Spin
02/13/2003  Possible Cause or the Gold Trend is Your Friend
02/10/2003  Blame It on Iraq
02/04/2003  Let's Get Physical
01/29/2003  What Ails Our Economy?
01/28/2003  The BIG Squeeze
12/12/2002  Golden Christmas Bells Are Ringing
11/27/2002  Oh, The Weather Outside is Frightful
11/20/2002  Dynamic Hedging of Mortgages, Risk Measurement Systems & Credit Derivatives
11/19/2002  Oil, Terrorism & International Risk Management: Headlines & Indicators
10/22/2002  It's as Basic as 1-2-3
10/21/2002  Looking Back to Look Ahead
10/17/2002  Spin Cycle
10/16/2002  Are We At The Bottom Yet?
10/15/2002  A Matter of Perception
10/04/2002  Short Story on Silver - Part 2 Geared and Engineered
10/03/2002  Short Story on Silver - Part 1 Paper Rules
09/04/2002  The Daily Spin
08/30/2002  Bubblarious! Fed Denies Fault
08/21/2002  Bear Market Rally What the ‘Experts’ are Saying
08/20/2002  The Myth: Classic Credit Squeeze
08/19/2002  14-Year Bear Itch: In a Recession

While on vacation, there were just too many interesting days
in the market for Jim not to comment...

08/14/2002  First Come - First Served
08/13/2002  Vacations as Planned
08/08/2002  An Absence of Explanations
08/07/2002  Bungee Jumping
08/06/2002  I'm back...

08/02/2002  The Primary Trend: Majoring in Dow Basics
08/01/2002  The 3-Headed M3 Bubble: Trading Places
07/31/2002  Three BIG Words: Revision, Recession, and Intervention
07/25/2002  One Day Wonder?
07/23/2002  Volatile Markets Move on News and Emotion
07/15/2006  Green Thumb Losing Its Magic?
05/22/2002  Cliff Hangers... We're Having a WORLDWIDE Bull Market...
02/13/2002  Pro Forma Economics?
02/11/2002  Earnings Warnings  WARNING:  THE FOLLOWING FINANCIAL REPORT COULD BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR FINANCIAL HEALTH.

Contact Information

James J. Puplava, CFP
PFS Group | PO Box 503147 San Diego, CA 92150-3147
(888) 486-3939 Toll Free | (858) 487-3939 Tel | 858) 487-3969 Fax
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