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Lawrence Meyers has been an avid stock investor since 1995. He began writing finance articles for the Motley Fool, where he authored over 100 articles, focusing on sectors including Hotel REITs, leisure, manufacturing, financial services, and small-cap investing. Some of more notable (and controversial) articles included The Myth of Socially Responsible Investing, Parts 1 and 2; and an exposé on Bally Total Fitness, which the Motley Fool pulled because it was too hot for publication. The series was subsequently published in a shortened form by Club Industry’s FitnessBusiness Pro trade magazine.

Most notably, he became the first U.S. journalist to comprehensively cover the companies and stocks in the short-term ...More consumer lending sector. Recognizing them as classic Peter Lynch plays because of the market’s misperception of their product, Larry became one of the country’s leading analysts for the sector. In 2006, he co-founded a private equity venture, PDL Capital Inc. The venture focused on providing low-cost short-term loans directly to consumers and working-capital commercial loans to other lenders across the country.

PDL Capital wound down its investments in 2010. Today, Larry is regarded as one of the nation’s experts on alternative consumer finance. He 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. He also consults for Credit Access Businesses and Credit Services Organizations in Texas. His Op-Eds and Letters to the Editor have appeared in over two dozen major newspapers. He also brokers financing, strategic investments, and distressed asset purchases between private equity firms and businesses of all stripes.

His investigative journalism and public policy writings have covered a diverse arena of issues, many drawing on his knowledge of chemistry and economics. He has provided clarity for policymakers, and the public, on subjects including fragrance chemistry, vaccine manufacturing, fisheries, statins, biofuel, tobacco taxation, siloxane D5, and the popular keratin hair-straightening treatment. It isn’t all serious stuff, though. He also pens articles on popular culture, including reviews of every James Bond film. The primary venues for these works are Breitbart.com and BloggerNews.net. He also contributes finance articles for SeekingAlpha.

Larry wrote two books. The first is a biography of his mysterious, reclusive high school math teacher, Teacher of the Year: The Mystery and Legacy of Edwin Barlow [www.misterbarlow.com]. The second is a virtual round-table of interviews with television’s top writer-producers, discussing their creative process and the collision between art and commerce. This book, Inside the TV Writer’s Room: Practical Advice for Succeeding in Television [www.tvwritersroom.com] has been praised by both established and aspiring writers for its unique insight into the creative process.

Larry also finds time to build a financial model for a revolutionary independent film production and distribution company, and is writing his first work for the theatre. He holds a B.A. in Chemistry from Cornell University and an M.A. in Film from the University of Southern California.

He can be contacted at pdlcapital66@gmail.com.

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Description: Journalist. Trading frequency: Daily
Interests: Bonds, Dividend stock ideas & income, ETFs, Options, REITs, Stocks - long, Stocks - short

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Email:: pdlcapital66@gmail.com

Location:: USA

URL:: http://www.pdlcapital.com

PDL Capital, LLC PDLCapital brokers debt and equity financing between private equity funds and businesses across all sectors, specializing in financial services and consumer credit. We can also assist in placing capital for the purchase of distressed assets and strategic investments. We also provide extensive consulting for ...More

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Ichabod's Cranium Ichabod's Cranium provides expert analysis and opinion (which isn't always so expert) on a variety of fascinating and intriguing topics, including public policy, consumer finance, popular culture, the stock market. It even includes some investigative reporting that nobody else dares cover.Chances are you'll ...More

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Teacher of the Year: The Mystery and Legacy of Edwin Barlow For 35 years, Edwin Barlow taught mathematics at his beloved Horace Greeley High School in Upstate New York. For 35 years, thousands of students passed through his classroom. Yet when he died, he remained as much a cipher as the day he arrived, for he deliberately shrouded his life in rumor and mystery. ...More

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