Lawrence Meyers

InvestorPlace Contributor

Lawrence Meyers is the founder and editor of The Liberty Portfolio.

Lawrence is also CEO of PDL Broker, which brokers financing, strategic investments, and distressed asset purchases between private equity firms and businesses of all stripes.

He was the first U.S. journalist to cover the payday loan sector for The Motley Fool. He has been a frequent contributor to Seeking Alpha, LearnBonds.com, WyattResearch.com, and American Banker. Lawrence has more than 20 years of practical investing experience, and has covered stocks across virtually every sector of the market. He is one of the nation’s experts on consumer credit, and frequently consults for hedge funds and private equity via his Council Member status at Gerson Lehman Group, and as a member of Coleman Research Group’s Executive Forum. His op-eds and letters to the editor have appeared in more than two dozen major newspapers.

Recent Articles

Options: Use the Short Straddle for Income

By Lawrence Meyers, InvestorPlace Contributor

Sitting on a dead-money stock (like I am with EZPW)? Use the short straddle options trade to generate income.

5 Stocks to Buy, 7 to Sell in Obamacare Era

By Lawrence Meyers, InvestorPlace Contributor

Here are 5 stocks to snap up, and 7 stocks to dump as Obamacare health exchanges open.

Go Yield Hunting in These 3 Preferred Stocks

By Lawrence Meyers, InvestorPlace Contributor

Make a beeline for high dividend yields by targeting these three preferred stocks.

Your Core Portfolio: More Special Situations (Shorts)

By Lawrence Meyers, InvestorPlace Contributor

In this installment, we look at stocks worth shorting, including a couple of chronically unprofitable energy players.

What Q2 Earnings Are Telling Us

By Lawrence Meyers, InvestorPlace Contributor

Earnings are showing us that if you have your money in the right sector, you'll continue to see results. However, other sectors tend to struggle mightily in a bad economy.

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