Lawrence Meyers

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

3 Quick Option Plays for Quick Income

Naked puts and covered calls can be a great way to hedge a bet, and can provide ways to play a degree of uncertainty you may have in a given stock.

Watch Which Parks Folks Flock to This Summer

Growth at national parks may signal a drop in theme park stocks. The economic squeeze on American families could send them to much cheaper great-outdoors trips.

More Ways to Profit From the Student Debt Bubble

For instance, buy apartment REITs rather than homebuilders because the money used to pay back student loans won't be going to major purchases.

Zipcar: Great Idea, Bad Stock

The main problem is that there's no barrier to entry -- and rivals with much more cash have jumped in.

Another Boring, Undervalued Growth Stock

It's nice to own a business that sells a product that must constantly be replaced. EnerSys is just that -- and it comes at a reasonable price.