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

Go Ahead, Be Dumb. Buy Rite Aid

By Lawrence Meyers, InvestorPlace Contributor

It's really quite simple: Drugstores are dead. Don't buy them. Ever.

For Movies, It’s Disney and Only Disney

By Lawrence Meyers, InvestorPlace Contributor

Studios have shifted their attention to big-budget blockbusters with franchise potential and built-in audiences. And no studio is better prepared than Disney.

Options: The QE Tapering Hedge

By Lawrence Meyers, InvestorPlace Contributor

In the event that QE tapering eventually takes place, selling covered calls might be better than puts to hedge your entire portfolio.

So … Can I Buy Gold NOW?

By Lawrence Meyers, InvestorPlace Contributor

All the things that drove gold higher for years have been thrust into full reverse. Trying to buy a bottom could be a fool's errand.

Your Core Portfolio: Large-Cap Value Stocks

By Lawrence Meyers, InvestorPlace Contributor

A basic approach to large-cap value stocks is to start with an ETF anchor, then turbocharge the portfolio with some big names.

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